Thus, the negative marker or negative specifier serves to confine the negative scope and negative focus within it.

否定标记词于是就具有了限定否定范围的句法作用。

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The several clauses following the negative word closely are all in the negative scope if they are similar semantically.

流水句中否定词后面的几个小句如果语义相容，则它们都在否定辖域之内；

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The essay defines the scope of such a negative sentence pattern, describes its structural feature and expounds its main pragmatic function.

论文界定了这种否定句式的范围，描述了其形式构造特征，阐述了其主要的语用功能。

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While there was plenty of news for traders to seize on Wednesday as a reason to bid up prices of stocks and other riskier investments, the scope of the gains in stocks likely reflected the degree to which many in the market had become negative in recent weeks.

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