Anything negatives can do affirmatives can do just as well, except for some metaphors
Author:
- Rachel GioraRGRachel Giora
- 1 July 2006
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Journal of Pragmatics
- Vol. 38 (7) , 981-1014
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