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Negation in the History of English /

Negation in the History of English / ed. by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff. - Reprint 2011 - 1 online resource (333 p.) - Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 26 1434-3452 ; .

I-IV -- 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 -- 335-336

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In English.

9783110161984 9783110806052

10.1515/9783110806052 doi


English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.
English language--Negatives--Congresses.
Englisch.
Geschichte.
Kongress.
Leiden ‹1994›.
Negation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General.

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