“I didn’t do nothing.” Double negation exists in some English varieties, and a paper finds a parallel in Brazilian Portuguese, where não can appear before the verb, after it, or twice with the same meaning. The meta-analysis suggests social variables alone don’t account for this variation.

“I didn’t do nothing.” Double negation exists in some English varieties, and a paper finds a parallel in Brazilian Portuguese, where não can appear before the verb, after it, or twice with the same meaning. The meta-analysis suggests social variables alone don’t account for this variation.

https://doi.org/10.25189/2675-4916.2025.v6.n4.id858