Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex

Negation is a universal syntactic phenomenon only employed in human languages. People use negative sentences in everyday conversations, and they display complex

Among emotions, surprise has been extensively studied in psychology. In linguistics, surprise, like other emotions, has mainly been studied through the syntacti

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