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Publication details [#32060]
Schwenter, Scott A. 2003. No and tampoco: a pragmatic distinction in Spanish negation. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (7) : 999–1030. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper investigates the distinction between the canonical negator 'no' and the non-canonical 'tampoco' in mainly spoken Spanish. It is demonstrated that this distinction is not regulated by "emphasis", yet constrained by a more specific set of pragmatic considerations.