Negation

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Negation refers to the situation in which something is said not to be the case.

Term properties

Relational adjective: negative

References

  • Givón, Talmy. 1978. Negation in language: Pragmatics, function, ontology. In: Peter Cole

(ed.) Syntax and Semantics, Volume 9 (Pragmatics). New York: Academic Press, 69-112.

  • Horn, Lawrence R. 1989. A natural history of negation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.