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declarative negation construction
a.k.a. declarative negation (construction)
a construction that expresses negative polarity of a declarative speech act. Example: in English, Kit didn't like the movie is an instance of a declarative negation construction, with the morpheme not ~ -n't combining with the past tense auxiliary did to negate the declarative speech act Kit liked the movie. (Section 12.2)
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