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Not -fragments and negative expansion
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Document type :
Article dans une revue scientifique
DOI :
10.1075/cf.00047.cap
Title :
Not -fragments and negative expansion
Author(s) :
Cappelle, Bert [Auteur] refId
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Journal title :
Constructions and Frames
Pages :
55-81
Publisher :
John Benjamins
Publication date :
2021-08-02
ISSN :
1876-1933
HAL domain(s) :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société
Sciences cognitives/Linguistique
English abstract : [en]
Abstract This paper focuses on emphatic sentence fragments of the type Not in a million years! . While such fragments can be partially accounted for by a known type of ellipsis, namely ‘stripping’, it is argued here that ...
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Abstract This paper focuses on emphatic sentence fragments of the type Not in a million years! . While such fragments can be partially accounted for by a known type of ellipsis, namely ‘stripping’, it is argued here that this type is best treated as a construction in its own right, with formal, semantic and pragmatic properties specific to it. One useful concept is what could be called ‘negative expansion’. This is a discourse-level construction whereby an already negative clause is followed by one or more negative clause fragments, whose negation is a repetition, rather than cancellation, of the negation in the preceding clause, as in It will never happen. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not ever.Show less >
Language :
Anglais
Peer reviewed article :
Oui
Audience :
Internationale
Popular science :
Non
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