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Negative Transportation and Tag Questions
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Cattell, Ray – Language, 1973
Descriptors: Deep Structure, Linguistic Theory, Logic, Negative Forms (Language)
Negative Transportation and Tag-Questions.
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Cattell, Ray – 1972
The author considers the rule of negative transportation in English and discusses his ideas about such a rule in contrast to the theories set forth by Robin Lakoff. The rule of negative transportation allows the shifting of a negative, under certain conditions, from a lower clause into a higher one. The discussion centers around the occurrence of…
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Deep Structure, Descriptive Linguistics, English