Italian Pleonastic Non: Finché, A Meno Che, Non Appena Explained
In short: Italian pleonastic non (also called non espletivo) is the small non that shows up in finché non, a meno che non, non appena, per poco non, and a handful of other set phrases. Most of the time it does not negate anything. It is a grammatical fossil: a leftover marker that still carries … Read more ≫