Internal negation

Internal negation is the internal negation of a generalized quantifier Q is the set of complements of the sets in Q with respect to E. Formally:

(i) Q Neg = { X subset E : (E - X) in Q }

The internal negation of all is no and the internal negation of a(n) is not all. See also external negation.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics

References

• Gamut, L.T.F. 1991. Logic, language, and meaning, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago.