Ton van der Wouden's account of negative contexts emphasizes pragmatic considerations, as well as semantic and syntactic ones.</div>
Negative Contexts: Collocation, Polarity and Multiple Negation
โ Scribed by Ton van der Wouden
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Series
- Routledge Studies in Germanic Linguistics
- Category
- Library
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