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Publication details [#28060]

Reesink, Ger P. 2002. Clause-final negation: Structure and interpretation. Functions of Language 9 (2) : 239–268.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adverbial | crosslinguistic perspective | interpretation | negation | scope

Language as a subject

Languages, Austronesian | Languages, Papuan

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-998X

Journal DOI

10.1075/fol

Annotation

This paper deals with structure and interpretation of clause-final negation in a number of Papuan and Austronesian languages. It thereto reviews some typological generalizations and proposals for different types of negation as well as problems related to the scope of negation.