Comparative Concept: direct negation pronoun (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
direct negation pronoun (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | direct negation pronoun |
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the pronoun that expresses a direct negation referent. Example: in I noticed nothing, nothing is a direct negation pronoun expressing a referent found only in the negative alternative world to the real world. (Section 3.5)