Pragmalinguistic approach to negation raising
Pragmalinguistic approach to negation raising

Summary/Abstract: Negation is one of the complex and generally insufficiently described language phenomena and it certainly deserves more attempts at analysis and description. In this paper we focus on the phenomenon of so-called negation raising in Croatian and we will try to describe the types of sentences (or more precisely, utterances) in which it is possible. In addition, we will try to approach the negation raising (also) from the pragmalinguistic perspective, and we will focus on the type of conclusions that are formed on the basis of the utterances in which this phenomenon is possible and try to determine whether the phenomenon is linked to the type of the speech act and/or some other pragmalinguistic phenomena.

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