Mitigating Commitment through Negation

The purpose of this paper is to show that the theory of Functional Discourse Grammar constitutes a powerful model to account for the complex phenomenon of Neg-Raising in a consistent and systematic way. Previous studies on Neg-Raising, the phenomenon involving the transfer of the negative from a com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quintero María Jesús Pérez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2018-12-01
Series:Open Linguistics
Subjects:
fdg
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2018-0033