Abstract
Abstract This paper expands on Carston's (1996) analysis of metalinguistic negation as involving an echoic utterance in the scope of negation. In accordance with the thesis that the negation operator is uniformly truth-functional in both its descriptive and metalinguistic uses, metalinguistic negation shares scopal properties with descriptive negation. Echoic analysis needs to be elaborated by incorporating the notion ‘focus of echo’. The analysis thus elaborated uncovers aspects of metalinguistic negation that have been overlooked with respect to two characteristics: the prohibition against negative polarity items and the inability of metalinguistic negation to incorporate morphologically.
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