Negation in the history of english /
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De Gruyter Mouton,
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Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©1999 |
Literature type: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Topics in english linguistics [tiel] ;
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Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110806052 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783110806052.jpg |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (333 pages). |
ISBN: | 9783110806052 |
Index Number: | PE1359 |
CLC: | H314 |
Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective -- English negation from an interactional perspective -- On Negative Raising in the history of English -- Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish -- Multiple negation in Middle English verse -- Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English -- The facts and nothing but: the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English -- Isn't it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English -- The origin and development of the "Neg ... neither" construction: a case of grammaticalisation -- Affixal and non-affixal negation - a case of stable variation over time? -- On the scope of Negative Concord -- On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English -- Index -- Backmatter |