Abstract
In this article, I will study parataxis after a negation or a question. Parataxis is well described in the grammars of ancient Greek and Latin. It occurs in modern Greek, ancient French, and in Hamito-Semitic languages such as Arabic, Berber or Biblical Hebrew. I would like to underline here the specificity of negation and question (yes-no question or wh- question). In these examples, negation or question always heads a complex sentence consisting of two coordinated and most often antithetical clauses. These structures do not belong exclusively to a particular language : they are universal as they reflect emotions or movements of thought (astonishment, reasoning, argumentation). It would be interesting to find out whether they occur in languages other than the ones I have mentioned.
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