Negation in the history of English
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Negation in the history of English
(Topics in English linguistics / editor, Herman Wekker, 26)
Mouton de Gruyter, 1999
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Note
Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Five ways of saying no : the development of sentential negation in English in a government and binding perspective / Frits Beukema
- English negation from an interactional perspective / Jenny Cheshire
- On negative raising in the history of English / Olga Fischer
- Negative concord and verb projection raising in Old English and West Flemish / Eric Haeberli, Liliane Haegeman
- Multiple negation in Middle English verse / Yoko Iyeiri
- Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English / Ans van Kemenade
- The facts and nothing but : the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusive in English / Terttu Nevalainen
- Isn't it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English / Matti Rissanen
- The origin and development of the "Neg ... neither" construction : a case of grammaticalisation / Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
- Affixal and non-affixal negation : a case of stable variation over time? / Gunnel Tottie
- On the scope of negative concord / Masatomo Ukaji
- On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English / Wim van der Wurff
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Description
Contains 12 papers on negation in the history of English, most of them dealing with multiple negation or the mobility of the negative element. The contributions represent different theoretical and methodological approaches. Other papers seek functional explanations of the investigated problems.
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