Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki
CONTRASTIVE NEGATION
CONSTRUCTIONAL VARIATION WITHIN AND ACROSS
LANGUAGES
Olli O. Silvennoinen
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
To be presented for public discussion with the permission of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki, in Room 107, Athena, on the 18th of October, 2019 at
12 o’clock.
Helsinki 2019
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1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND AIMS
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1.3 OUTLINE
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2 CONTRASTIVE
NEGATION
2.1 INTRODUCTION
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‘contrastive negation’. Another sense of correction is merely the affirmative part of a
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‘shaken and not stirred’). By contrast, in some Slavonic languages such as Russian, the equivalents of both ‘but’ in ‘not X but Y’ and ‘and’ in ‘Y and not X’ are corrective conjunctions (<NDINF<E<
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2.2 WHAT
IS
CONTRASTIVE
NEGATION?
2.2.1 CONTRASTIVE NEGATION AS A FUNCTION
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