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that matters at least as far as the data of the present study are
concerned. Conditional clauses tend to provide ne alone, as has been
pointed out. Temporal clauses introduced by 'when' and concessive
clauses introduced by 'though', by contrast, present a much weaker
tendency to show ne alone despite the fact that they occasionally
refer to something which has never happened. The situation of
subordinate clauses introduced by J differs depending upon the
nature of their superordinate clauses. When the superordinate clause
is negative, J-clauses tend to yield the adverb ne alone whereas
they tend to show not or never, no, etc., with or without the adverb
ne, when their superordinate clauses are positive. This general rule
most frequently applies to J-clauses subordinate to some specific
verbs with negative connotation such as douten 'to doubt' and
foi beden 'to forbid'. Inclinations are rather unclear, however, in the
case of fl-clauses dependent upon an interrogative clause. Most of
the examples available in the present study have turned out to be
rhetorical questions, which are theoretically similar in nature to
negative clauses, since the presumption involved in them tends to be
negative if the rhetorical question does not include negation. The
employment of never, no, etc. is, however, common in J-clauses
dependent upon them, which may be attributable to the emphatic
nature of rhetorical questions.
In some cases, certain constructions seem to be rather fixed.
One of the cases is ifiustrated by the collocation in which the finite
verb immediately follows the conjunction ne. The combination of the
conjunction ne and the adverb ne, which results in ne ne, is simply
avoided. Thus constructions which do not include the adverb ne are
usually used in the present syntactic condition. Not only the adverb
not alone but also never, no, etc. alone are, therefore, common here.
This is, however, irrelevant to any strength of negative proposition.
Secondly, clauses in which the combination of ne and but yields the
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