This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …
This paper focuses on the structural and functional properties of a positionally flexible verb- based discourse marker, sai (lit.'you know'), which in its turn-final position is a conversational …
This dissertation is about an adverbial which I have named “Contrarian” HARDLY. It is a member of the family of approximative adverbs that includes: almost, barely, hardly, rarely …
L'indagine, basata su una trentina di interviste a parlanti veneti di età compresa tra i 40 ei 65 anni, vuole analizzare la situazione della negazione in diverse varietà della regione …