ABSTRACT
Emphatic negation, the usage of multiple negation to strengthen the force of the negation, fits into a more general pattern of double or multiple marking, the mechanism that if you want to stress something, you say it more than once. This is far from uncommon in the case of intensifiers (Part I) and modal operators such as necessity or possibility.59 The following examples, based on real text, are usually forbidden by normative grammars as PLEONASM, REDUNDANCY or TAUTOLOGY, the differences between which are irrelevant for the present discussion.
