The Force of Negation in Wh Exclamatives and Interrogatives ∗
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One could assume that the negative morpheme no in (2) is not semantically negative, but this would be dissatisfying in several respects. First of all, in general we of course would prefer not to postulate an ambiguity, on fear of missing a generalization. Second, the question arises of why it is the negative morpheme which takes on the pleonastic function, if the meaning of this item is not implicated in the constructions. And third, we are not aware
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