neg-raising
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See also: NEG-raising and Neg-Raising
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From neg, clipping of negative + raising.
Noun
[edit]- (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.