neg-raising

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See also: NEG-raising, and Neg-Raising

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Etymology

From neg, clipping of negative +‎ raising.

Noun

neg-raising (uncountable)

  1. (linguistics) The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give rise to a reading where the negation seems to take scope from an embedded clause.

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