@inbook{316edc972f0a429283119951825926d8,
title = "Negation and first language acquisition",
abstract = "This chapter investigates children{\textquoteright}s acquisition of negation from a cross-linguistic perspective. The chapter reviews topics in the syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of negation in children{\textquoteright}s grammars. Discussion of the syntax of negation in early grammars includes the hierarchical position of negation in children{\textquoteright}s early structures, internal versus external negation, and the syntactic category of the negative marker. Topics relevant to 3- to 5-year-old grammars include children{\textquoteright}s access to double negation, whether or not children acquiring Standard English permit negative concord as part of their core grammar, and children{\textquoteright}s negative question structures. Children{\textquoteright}s acquisition of the semantics of negation is covered in a discussion of negation as a licensor of any and of disjunction. The investigations underline the importance of providing appropriate pragmatic contexts in experiments targeting children{\textquoteright}s production and comprehension of negation.",
keywords = "sentential negation, external negation, Continuity, negative adverb, head form of negation, double negation, negative concord, negative polarity, disjunction under negation",
author = "Rosalind Thornton",
year = "2020",
month = mar,
doi = "10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198830528.013.36",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780198830528",
series = "Oxford Handbooks",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
pages = "599--614",
editor = "Viviane D{\'e}prez and Espinal, {M. Teresa}",
booktitle = "The Oxford handbook of negation",
address = "United Kingdom",
}