Calamities and Counterfactuals: A Historical View of Polarity Reversal

Previous studies have attributed little attention to the historical factors surrounding the development of counterfactual meanings in the adverbs almost and nearly, though some have referred to evidence of pleonastic negation found in proximatives across languages. In the present study, the historic...

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Main Author: Debra Ziegeler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2015-07-01
Series:Anglophonia
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/anglophonia/520
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