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<p>utrecht</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>The phenomenon that a [[negation]] in the [[matrix clause]] of a [[sentence]] is interpreted in negating the [[complement clause]].<br /> <br /> === Example ===<br /> <br /> The negation in the matrix clause (ia) is interpreted in negating the complement clause, which makes (ia) equivalent to (ib):<br /> <br /> (i) a I don't think he'll come<br /> b I think he won't come<br /> <br /> The phenomenon owes its name to the early transformational analysis as an instance of movement (Lakoff 1970): the negation is raised out of its embedded clause to a position in the matrix clause. It is also called neg-raising. Examples of predicates that allow negative raising are ''believe, want, seem, suppose, likely, ought to'', but not ''know'', for instance. Negative raising has later received a pragmatic explanation. The ‘displaced’ interpretation of the negation results from a strengthening of the unlikely wide interpretation of (ia) to the more likely narrow interpretation that corresponds to (ib). See Horn (1989) for an extensive overview.<br /> <br /> === Links ===<br /> <br /> [http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Negative+raising&amp;lemmacode=1681 Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics]<br /> <br /> === References ===<br /> <br /> * Horn, Laurence R. 1989. ''A Natural History of Negation,'' University of Chicago Press, Chicago<br /> * Lakoff, G. 1970. ''Pronominalization, negation and the analysis of adverbs, in: Jacobs, R. and P. Rosenbaum (eds.) Readings in English transformational grammar,'' 145-165, Ginn &amp;amp; Co, Waltham, MA<br /> <br /> {{dc}}<br /> [[Category:Syntax]]</div>

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