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Cogen, Cathy. 1974. Not a one. Berkeley studies in Syntax and Semantics 1 (2) : 1–10.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English

Annotation

C. argues that 'not a one' (e.g. in 'He didn't ask us one question, not a one'), like other expressions of the same sort such as 'not a wink', etc., are syntactically and semantically derivable from full sentences containing 'even', preserving the presuppositions in question. Further it is argued that the derivation of such constructions requires the adoption of 'amalgams' in a theory of grammar.