"di?nt" (with glottal stop)
Laurence Horn
laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Wed Nov 17 04:52:05 UTC 2004
P.S. on my line on unh-unh, uh-oh, didn't, etc., I just realized I
should have been a bit less obscure in my terminology. Of course
"uh-oh" isn't a negation in the normal propositional sense; I was
alluding (following Bolinger) to the negative affect associated with
situations in which "uh-oh" is uttered--in the words of AHD4, "to
express alarm, foreboding, or dismay."
larry
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