Laurence R. Horn

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Laurence Robert Horn (born 1945) is an American linguist. He is professor emeritus of linguistics in the department of linguistics at Yale University with specialties in pragmatics and semantics. He received his doctorate in 1972 from UCLA and formerly served as director of undergraduate studies, director of graduate studies, and chair of Yale's department of linguistics.[1] In 2021, he served as president of the Linguistic Society of America.[2]

Horn's primary research program lies in classical logic, lexical semantics, and neo-

Gricean
pragmatic theory. He mainly focused on the exploration of natural language negation and its relation to other operators. His work in pragmatics, in particular his innovation in the theory of
negative polarity
as well. Notable is his use of Aristotelian notions such as the Square of Oppositions, and syllogistic logic in a modern semantic/pragmatic setting.

Publications

  • Horn, Laurence R., A Natural History of Negation, 1989;[7] 2nd edn. 2001.[8]
  • Horn, Laurence R./ Ward, Gregory L., Handbook of Pragmatics, 2004.
  • Kecskes, Istvan/ Horn, Laurence R., Explorations in Pragmatics, 2007.
  • Horn, Laurence R., The Expression of Negation, 2010.

Notes

  1. ^ [1] Yale Linguistics website
  2. ^ "Presidents | Linguistic Society of America". www.linguisticsociety.org. Retrieved 2022-04-02.
  3. ^ Randy Allen Harris. The Linguistics Wars.
  4. ^ Horn, Laurence (1989). A Natural History of Negation. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago press.
  5. ^ Reprinted 2001 in the David Hume Series, CSLI, Stanford, Calif
  6. ^ See Anastasia Giannakidou. 2004. Review of A Natural History of Negation, by Laurence R. Horn, CSLI Publications. In the Journal of Linguistics 40:426-433.
  7. doi:10.2178/jsl/1183743767
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  8. ^ Xie, Chaoqun (2003). "A Natural History of Negation (review)". CJL/RCL. 48 (1/2): 127–130.

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