Not -fragments and negative expansion

Cappelle, Bert

Document type :

Article dans une revue scientifique

DOI :

10.1075/cf.00047.cap

Title :

Not -fragments and negative expansion

Author(s) :

Cappelle, Bert [Auteur]

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 ...
Show more >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

Collections :

Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

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