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Publication details [#32066]

Mughazy, Mustafa. 2003. Metalinguistic negation and truth functions: the case of Egyptian Arabic. Journal of Pragmatics 35 (8) : 1143–1160.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

metalanguage | negation | pragmatic function | truth condition

Language as a subject

Arabic, Egyptian

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

ISBN

0378-2166

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper proposes two diagnostics for metalinguistic negation in Egyptian Arabic: it enables double negation, and it cannot be used emphatically. These facts strongly support Horn's account of metalinguistic negation as non truth-functional.