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Invoice Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

internal and external negation

Could you provide apprehensible examples in order to understand the
differences between internal and external negation? Examples I found were too complex for me.

Let me give an example:

He mustn't go with them (internal negation)
He can't go with them (external negation)

What's the difference?

Thanks a lot..
  

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Hi, This is related to linguistics. I suggest that you should repost it in our Linguistics Discussion Forum. Just go back to Home, and you will find it in the menu.

— Clive

  • Hi, This is related to linguistics.
  • I suggest that you should repost it in our Linguistics Discussion Forum.
  • Just go back to Home, and you will find it in the menu.
  • I think you will get more replies that way.
  • Best wishes, Clive
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Hi,

This is related to linguistics. I suggest that you should repost it in our Linguistics Discussion Forum. Just go back to Home, and you will find it in the menu. I think you will get more replies that way.

Best wishes, Clive
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In the terminology you're using, internal negation is equivalent to negation of the proposition; external negation is equivalent to negation of the modality. The following are paraphrases used to illustrate these concepts. Note that the idea present in the modality (must, can) is placed in these paraphrases externally to the main message (proposition) of the sentence. Negat
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