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The Markedness of Double Negation

2015
Is Double Negation (DN) a marked interpretation with respect to Negative Concord (NC) as universally assumed? This is what is verified in this article that reports on actual usage in French and English. It investigates three configurations with multiple clause-mate negative expressions (clausal negator with a n-word, two n-words, and two clausal ...
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Double Negation in Navya-Nyāya

1979
Professor Daniel Ingalls published his Materials for the Study of Navya- Nyāya Logic in 1951. The publication of this pioneering work has been, directly or indirectly, responsible for a number of interesting developments in the study of Indian philosophy. Let me mention only two of them here.
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Four Potential Meanings of Double Negation

International Review of Pragmatics, 2016
The figurative use of double negations (not uninteresting, not unhappy) has been described by linguists and rhetoricians with regards to the rhetorical figure litotes. Both mitigation and strengthening have been proposed as aims of litotes (Horn, 1989; Krifka, 2007; van der Wouden, 1996). An analysis of the construction nicht un-adjective (not un-adj.)
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Double Negation

Prairie Schooner, 2023
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From double negation to portmanteau

2009
Northern Samo languages of North Western Burkina Faso, belonging to the Mande group of languages, show an extreme variation in all fields of grammar, as in the construction of negation. Double negation marking with a post subject plus a sentence final negation marker was probably a feature of proto Northern Samo.
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Understanding the Electric Double-Layer Structure, Capacitance, and Charging Dynamics

Chemical Reviews, 2022
Jianzhong Wu
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On Double Negation and Negative Concord

2021
Sadržaj knjige podijeljen je u tri dijela s ukupno pet poglavlja, pri čemu drugo, treće i četvrto poglavlje tvore središte djela. Uvodno poglavlje upoznaje čitatelja s dijapazonom pojavnih oblika negacije koji se analiziraju u knjizi te objašnjava ciljeve knjige i metodologiju kojom se koristi.
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The scalar interpretation of double negation

Journal of Pragmatics, 2022
Yechezkel Shabanov, Einat Shetreet
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Single-junction organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a refined double-fibril network morphology

Nature Materials, 2022
Lei Zhu, Ming Zhang, Chao Li
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Double Negation in Negative Concord Languages

2009
This chapter investigates double negation readings in negative concord languages. This may look like a contradiction in terms. After all, negative concord is a system in which multiple expressions of negation combine to convey a single negation reading. If so, then how is it possible to express double negation in such languages?
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