Perspectives on negation and polarity items / edited by Jack Hoeksema, Hotze Rullmann, Victor Sanchez-Valencia, Ton Van Der Wouden, University of Groningen

This study hypothesises that neg-raising is a cognitive phenomenon which arises while the human mind is processing the content of the sentence under the normal assumption of closed world. A 'neg-raised sentence' conveys an epistemic attitude towards the proposition expressed by the subordi...

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Other Authors: Hoeksema, Jacob, 1956- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub., [2001]
Series:Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 40.
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