Chapter 3
Linguistic realisations of negation
Motivated variation
Article outline
- 3.1Introduction
- 3.2Issues around constructing a typology: Describing and defining negation
- 3.2.1Definitions and descriptions
- 3.2.2Defining negation
- 3.3Textual Vehicles
- 3.3.1The analytic versus synthetic distinction
- 3.3.2Syntactic forms
- 3.3.2.1Analytic Syntactic
- 3.3.2.2Synthetic Syntactic
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3.3.3Morphological forms
- 3.3.3.1Morphological negation in relation to prototypical forms
- 3.3.3.2Variability between affixes
- 3.3.4 Semantic forms
- 3.3.4.1Identifying semantic negation
- 3.3.4.2Peripheral semantic forms
- 3.3.5Pragmatic forms
- 3.3.5.1Grammaticalised forms
- 3.3.5.2Modality and past tense conditional constructions
- 3.4Motivations for variation
- 3.4.1Scope
- 3.4.1.1Sentence scope
- 3.4.1.2Semantic scope
- 3.4.1.3Utterance/context scope
- 3.4.2Synthesis and Co-text, text-type and lexical gaps
- 3.4.3Variable force
- 3.4.3.1Weak negative force
- 3.4.3.2Strong negative force
- 3.4.3.3Negative force as variable focus on possible presence or actual absence
- 3.5Motivated variation
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