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Negation in the History of English / ed. by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 26Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©1999Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (333 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110161984
  • 9783110806052
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 425
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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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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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