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Publication details [#1631]
Borkin, Ann. 1972. Clipping away at meaning. Papers from the Regional Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society 8 : 10–21.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Annotation
B. investigates hedged sentences like 'I don't crave cigarettes' in contexts in which the speaker realizes that the verb he is using is not completely appropriate for the situation; she suggests certain parallels between negation with contrastive stress and negation of sublexical parts of semantic structures in such sentences.