This study investigates the prosodic realization of negation in Saisiyat, an endangered aboriginal Austronesian language of Taiwan, and compares the prosodic properties of its affirmative and negative ...

In the topsy-turvy world of linguistics, sometimes a negative can be surprisingly positive. From polite offers to emphatic exclamations, English speakers have cleverly twisted negative expressions to ...

A question from Kypros in the UK: Why is it that many English people use a negative construction in the following example when a positive meaning is meant? For instance: Hello. Thank you for writing ...

In this perplexing, 24-hour-news-cycle-reality-show world in which I find myself, I tend to react to current events as if they were background noise that only occasionally comes to the surface of my ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Certain Old English verbs may undergo contraction when negated, and it has been proposed that in verse the use of contracted rather than ...