Comparative Concept: indirect negation pronoun (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
indirect negation pronoun (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | indirect negation pronoun |
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a pronoun that expresses an indirect negation referent. Example: in I don't think that anybody has seen it, anybody is an indirect negation pronoun expressing a referent that is found only in the negated 'world' of the speaker's beliefs. (Section 3.5)