The Evolution of Negation : : Beyond the Jespersen Cycle /

The Evolution of Negation : : Beyond the Jespersen Cycle / / ed. by Richard Ingham, Pierre Larrivée.

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Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the identification of the role of phrases for the evolution of negation are the two...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Alsenoy, Lauren Van,
Auwera, Johan van der,
Biberauer, Theresa,
Déprez, Viviane,
Haeberli, Eric,
Hansen, Maj-Britt Mosegaard,
Hoeksema, Jack,
Ingham, Richard,
Kemenade, Ans van,
Labelle, Marie,
Larrivée, Pierre,
Martineau, France,
Roberts, Ian,
Rowlett, Paul,
Willis, David,
HerausgeberIn:
Ingham, Richard,
Larrivée, Pierre,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 235
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • Is there a Jespersen cycle?
  • Negative words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar puzzles
  • Negative words and negation in French
  • Secondary negation and information structure organisation in the history of English
  • Looking high and low for NegP in early English
  • Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English
  • Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman
  • Ne-absence in declarative and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change
  • The early absence of the French negative marker ne
  • Atoms of negation: An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord
  • Viviane Déprez: ‘‘Atoms of negation. An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord.’’ Discussion
  • Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages
  • Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis
  • Subject index
  • Language index

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