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Two negations for the price of one
Glossa, 2016 Standard English is typically described as a double negation language. In double negation languages, each negative marker contributes independent semantic force. Two negations in the same clause usually cancel each other out, resulting in an affirmative
Anna Notley +3 more
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A note on double negation marking in Sissala
Studies in African Linguistics, 1983 Double Negation Marking in Sissala, a Voltaic language spoken on the Ghana-Upper Volta border, raises some interesting questions about sentence negation and poses some problems regarding semantic interpretation.
Regina Blass
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Unnaturalness of Negation – an Old Wives’ Tale Retold
ELOPE, 2006 Negation has a very long history of study. In the realm of logic, negation is seen as a simple operation that turns an affirmative to a negative. This assumption strongly affected the linguistic study of negation, and led to some misconceptions.
Gašper Ilc
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Nordic Atlas of Language Structures Journal, 2017 Clause-initial negation, which contributes with the negative semantics in the clause, can be divided into three subcategories according to Lindstrom (2009:168): (i) responsive negation, (ii) interrogative negation, and (iii) additive negation. Out of these three subtypes, the responsive negation, which is prosodically unstressed and primarily used in ...
Østbø Munch, Christine B. +1 more
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Constraints on the usage of verbal negation in Brazilian portuguese– Evidence from a spoken corpus
Káñina, 2017 The verbal negation system of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) presents three forms: preverbal, double and postverbal negation, as can be seen in the following examples: *MIC: [91] mas / Michael / eunãofalonessesentido // (ii) *DOM: [101] cêsnũle ...
Luis Filipe Lima e Silva, Heliana Mello
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Constraints on the usage of verbal Brazilian portuguese - Evidence from a spoken corpus
Káñina, 2016 The verbal negation system of Brazilian Portuguese (BP) presents three forms: preverbal, double and postverbal negation, as can be seen in following examples: *MIC: [91] mas / Michael / eu não falo nesse sentido // (ii) *DOM: [101] cês nũ lêem isso mais
Luis Filipe Lima e Silva, Heliana Mello
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A linguistic study of English double negation and its realization in Arabic
Studies in English Language and Education, 2022 The studies on multiple negation have been conducted intensively in linguistics, but very few studies have focused on multiple negation in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA).
Sahar Abdulsalam Alshargabi +2 more
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Languages, 2023 Most Romance negative concord (NC) languages in particular configurations give rise to double negation (DN) readings. In this article, I discuss an intricate DN pattern in French.
Hedde Zeijlstra
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De la négation à la focalisation : le cas du morphème « du » en wolof et ses connexions émotionnelles [PDF]
Revue Roumaine d’Etudes Francophones, 2023 In Wolof, negation can be formally identified by the use of negative markers depending on the completed or not completed process. However, among these markers, there is a du negation morpheme which can lead to a double focus in the statement, but ...
Adjaratou O. SALL
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