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neg-raising

noun

Etymology

From neg, clipping of negative + raising.

  1. inherited from reysynge
  2. compounded as neg-raising — “negative + raising”

Definitions

  1. The phenomenon by which certain negated predicates (e.g. think, believe, expect) can give…

    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.

  2. Alternative form of neg-raising.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for neg-raising. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA