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Publication details [#45759]
Furtado da Cunha, Maria Angélica. 2007. Grammaticalization of the strategies of negation in Brazilian Portuguese. Journal of Pragmatics 39 (9) : 1638–1653. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines and interprets the three Brazilian Portuguese strategies of clausal negation within the Functional Linguistics framework. The findings demonstrate the interaction of two competing motivations: towards a restoration or a decrease of iconicity.