Negation in English Speech and Writing: A Study in Variation |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Factors Pertaining | 10 |
Affixal Negation in Speech and Writing | 33 |
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Common terms and phrases
acceptable adjectives adverbs affixal and nonaffixal affixal negation Bolinger Brown Corpus Chapter choice clause collocations Compare constraints context contrastive constructions coordinated structures copular Corpus discussion DISTRIBUTION OF NOT-NEGATION ellipsis examples explicit factor groups frequency of negation function gradable implicit denials incorporating elements instances of no-negation INVARIABLE NOT-NEGATION Labov linguistic litotes main sample meaning mental verbs nega negative sentences nonaffixal negation noncontrastive Not-neg No-neg not-negation and no-negation not-negation or no-negation Notice noun phrases occur possible postmodifying pragmatic predicates PrefAdjs premodifying prepositional phrases pro-form problem pronouns Quirk reference scope of negation second conjoin seems semantic equivalence semantic nonequivalence sentences with not-negation speaker speech and writing spoken and written spoken material spoken sample subject complement syntactic Table tences texts tion Tottie type of negation Variable Invariable Total VARIABLE NO-NEGATION variable rule analysis variation between not-negation verb phrase written English written language written material written sample