"Niente niente" non negativo nell’italiano contemporaneo

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the non-negative uses of niente niente in present-day Italian. The lack of a comprehensive description in lexicography and grammars has prompted an investigation of a set of data collected from the Italian corpus ItTenTen20. Furthermore, niente niente has faced very important developments over the past century, which need to be reported.