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Negation in the history of English

edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff

(Topics in English linguistics / editor, Herman Wekker, 26)

Mouton de Gruyter, 1999

  • : cloth

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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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