Expression and Interpretation of Negation

Unique in its combination of syntactic and semantic formalization in the analysis developed, and wide empirical coverage of data Valuable in its development of bi-directional Optimality Theory as an empirically viable theory of grammar, and a typology of the syntax-semantics interface Distinctively combines a surface-oriented syntax with a fully compositional semantics Offers the most refined analysis so far of instances of double negation in negative concord languages