A book on “A Natural History of” this function in language was written by Laurence Horn, who names non-Boolean clauses in which phrases with this function can be “raised.” Words performing this function before verbs are dropped in favor of postverbal ones as part of Jespersen’s cycle. (10[6])Use of this function (-5[1])is repeated for rhetorical understatement in litotes (“ly-TOTE-eez”). AAVE (10[1])(“A-A-V-E”) has, but General American English lacks, a phenomenon (10[1])in which this function intensifies when used (10[1])more than once, (10[3])called this (10[1])function’s (10[1])“concord.” In German, prepending a “k” to an indefinite article does this function. Doubling this function in General American English cancels (-5[1])out and is often stylistically (10[1])discouraged. For 10 points, what function is applied when adding the contraction “n’t” (“N apostrophe T”) to certain verbs? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])