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