How can you compare! On negated comparisons as comparisons

Intercultural Pragmatics

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 501-516

  Giora, Rachel ^a   Zimmerman, Dana ^a   Fein, Ofer ^a  

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EID: 61949392882     PISSN: 1612295X     EISSN: 1613365X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/IPRG.2008.024     Document Type: Article

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