Abstract
This study is devoted to an analysis of the polyphonic nature of adversative constructions like Pierre n’est pas français mais danois . As the syntactic negation ne... pas and the connector mais both represent a typical polyphonic nature, the interaction between these two linguistic elements within the same syntactic structure represents a rather complex analysis in spite of the fact that there is only one single utterance present. The two arguments in adversative structures have to fulfil certain syntactic and semantic demands, such as being part of the same paradigm. We find traces of one speaker (the utterance locutor) who refutes another speaker’s point of view but who also rectifies his own point of view. The study suggests that the two arguments in the adversative structure reveal an internal polyphony as well as an external polyphony, which gives a particular polyphonic nature to the adversative structure.
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