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Из наблюдений над способами выражения отрицания в церковнославянском тексте русского извода

Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2021
The article describes the specificity of the changes that took place in the process of dissemination of double negation, typical for Slavic languages, visible in the Ruthenian recension of Church Slavonic texts. The reflections on the achievements in the
Zofia Szwed
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Why is “not infrequent” not always “frequent”? Double negation in political discourse

ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2015
The aim of this paper is to view double negation in the light of its semantic and pragmatic meaning. While double negation in logic gives a positive value, in natural languages, besides having positive entailment, it can have a range of different ...
Osmankadić Merima
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Comedy’s Double Negation of Meaning in Post-war European Theater

Sillages Critiques, 2021
Through selected close readings from plays by Arthur Adamov and Samuel Beckett, this article examines how language is herein used against itself to expose the impossibility of meaninglessness.
Anna Street
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Evoking the Possibility of Presence:Textual and Ideological Effects of Linguistic Negation in Written Discourse [PDF]

This thesis explores the textual and ideological effects of linguistic negation in written texts. It argues that when language users process negation, understanding its use in context is as much about the possibility of presence as it is about the ...
Nahajec, Lisa Margaret
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La negazione in swahili. Un viaggio nel labirinto della grammatica

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
Verbal negation in Kiswahili. A journey in the labyrinth of grammar. This work presents a description of negation in Kiswahili. After a short exposition of the morphological patterns of negation in Kiswahili, explained in the frame of the Proto-Bantu ...
Marina Castagneto
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From Latin to Modern Italian: Some Notes on Negation

Languages, 2022
This article aims at investigating some diachronic aspects of the Italian negative system, considering a time span ranging from Old Latin to Modern Italian.
Matteo Greco
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Negation in context [PDF]

, 2012
The present essay includes six thematically connected papers on negation in the areas of the philosophy of logic, philosophical logic and metaphysics. Each of the chapters besides the first, which puts each the chapters to follow into context, highlights
De, Michael
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Strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF [PDF]

Logical Methods in Computer Science
We incorporate strong negation in the theory of computable functionals TCF, a common extension of Plotkin's PCF and G\"{o}del's system $\mathbf{T}$, by defining simultaneously strong negation $A^{\mathbf{N}}$ of a formula $A$ and strong negation $P^{
Nils Köpp, Iosif Petrakis
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Intonational effects on English scopally-ambiguous sentences

Ilha do Desterro, 2020
This paper examines the effect of intonation contour on two types of scopally ambiguous constructions in English: configurations with a universal quantifier in subject position and sentential negation (e.g., Every horse didn’t jump) and configurations ...
Mien-Jen Wu, Tania Ionin
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Double-headed negation in Santome

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2008
Santome, a Portuguese-related creole spoken on the island of São Tomé in the Gulf of Guinea, exhibits a standard discontinuous sentence negation pattern consisting of a preverbal marker (Neg1) and a VP-final marker (Neg2).
Tjerk Hagemeijer
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