Comparative Concept: declarative negation construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
declarative negation construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction (def) |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | declarative negation construction • declarative negation |
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| Spraakbanken | declarative negation construction (cxn) |
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a construction that expresses negative polarity of a declarative - speech act. Example: in English, Kit didn't like the movie is an instance of a declarative negation construction, with the morpheme not ~ -n't combining with the past tense auxiliary did to negate the declarative speech act 'Kit liked the movie'. (Section 12.2)