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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1999
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] , 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (333 p.)
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Table of 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