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Cook, Walter A. – Georgetown Journal of Languages and Linguistics, 1990
Examines the idiomatic meaning carried in a sentence through the syntactic idiom. The infinitive of negative result is used to examine the understanding of the meaning carried in a sentence by its syntactic structure. (GLR)
Descriptors: Idioms, Negative Forms (Language), Sentence Structure, Surface Structure
