The pragmatics of verbal negation in brazilian portuguese: hypothesis testing with corpus data
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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This paper focuses on testing a pragmatic hypothesis about verbal negation in Brazilian
Portuguese (BP). The BP verbal negation system presents three forms, namely: preverbal,
double, and postverbal negation. Schwenter (2005) claims that there are constraints in
the use of the non-canonical forms, i.e. double and postverbal negations. According to
the author, double negation can negate only inferable or directly activated propositions
and postverbal negation can negate only directly activated propositions. We tested this
hypothesis with data from the C-ORAL-BRASIL reference spontaneous speech corpus of
BP (Raso & Mello 2012). The results show that there is a tendency for Schwenter’s hypothesis
about double negation to be confirmed, but this is not the case for postverbal negation.
The corpus data examined reveal a high proportion of occurrences that do not
comply with the proposed hypothesis. Further research is needed to advance the understanding
of constraints about the use of the non-canonical forms of negation in BP.
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Linguística, Pragmática, Linguística de corpus
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Verbal negation, Brazilian Portuguese, Spontaneous speech corpus, Pragmatics
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https://revistas.uam.es/chimera/article/view/6509