Titre :

Not-fragments and negative expansion

Auteur(s) :

Cappelle, Bert [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]

Titre de la revue :

Constructions and Frames

Pagination :

55-81

Éditeur :

John Benjamins

Date de publication :

2021-08-02

ISSN :

1876-1933

Mot(s)-clé(s) en anglais :

constructions ellipsis negative expansion not-fragment stripping
constructions
ellipsis
negative expansion
not-fragment
stripping

Discipline(s) HAL :

Sciences cognitives/Linguistique

Résumé en anglais : [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 ...
Lire la suite >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.Lire moins >

Langue :

Anglais

Vulgarisation :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL