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Revision as of 15:01, 9 July 2009 by Malcolma (talk | contribs) (cat)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Laurence (Larry) Horn is a linguist and professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Linguistics at the Yale University with specialties in pragmatics and semantics. He earned his PhD at UCLA in 1972.
Horn has made major contributions to pragmatics. He is one of the group known as radical pragmaticists in the 1970s (along with Jerrold Sadock and others) and was involved in the linguistics wars over generative semantics. The Horn scales are named after him (a pragmatically determined scale over which Gricean generalized conversational implicatures can be calculated). His 1989 book, A natural history of negation, is widely considered to be a masterpiece; in it, he lays out all the major topics concerning negation since Aristotle, and touches on negative polarity as well.
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- Randy Allen Harris. The Linguistics Wars.
- Reprinted 2001 in the David Hume Series, CSLI, Stanford, Calif.
- 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.