This paper gives a detailed analysis of the means of negation and of some idiomatic negative expressions in English. The paper, based on translation studies, conducts a contrastive and comparative study of negation in...
Double negative in English has three functions: to strengthen the affirmatives, and to affirm euphemism and to strengthen the negative meaning, which are analyzed in the present paper.
This paper deals with the scope of two types of English negation: the modal negation and the non-modal negation. It points out the possibility of ambiguity by reflecting the negative scope through word order in some ...