Conflicting Speech Formulas: About To and Not About To
Many formulaic linguistic expressions are not generated by grammatical rules, nor do they fit neatly into the lexicon. Two such strings in English are be about to and not be about to. These expressions are not semantically positive and negative forms of the same string. The first signals preinceptiv...
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| Format: | Article |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1986-01-01
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| Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/568 |