Expletive negation and related problems

This paper makes two main claims: the presence of two or more negative elements in Negative Concord, Negative Comparison, and Expletive Negation basically rests upon the pragmatic need of intensifying the negative import of the sentence. Secondly, the paper aims at identifying a possible path of fun...

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Main Author: Paolo Ramat
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bologna 2022-12-01
Series:Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads
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Online Access:https://typologyatcrossroads.unibo.it/article/view/15153