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Negation in the history of English / edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Topics in English linguistics ; 26.
- Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; 26
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Negatives--Congresses.
- English language.
- English language--Grammar, Historical--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2011
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "Negation in the History of English".
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction / Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid / Tottie, Gunnel / Wurff, Wim van der
- Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective / Beukema, Frits
- English negation from an interactional perspective / Cheshire, Jenny
- On Negative Raising in the history of English / Fischer, Olga
- Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish / Haeberli, Eric / Haegeman, Liliane
- Multiple negation in Middle English verse / Iyeiri, Yoko
- Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English / Kemenade, Ans van
- The facts and nothing but: the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English / Nevalainen, Terttu
- Isn't it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English / Rissanen, Matti
- The origin and development of the "Neg ... neither" construction: a case of grammaticalisation / Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid
- Affixal and non-affixal negation - a case of stable variation over time? / Tottie, Gunnel
- On the scope of Negative Concord / Ukaji, Masatomo
- On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English / Wurff, Wim van der
- Index
- Back matter
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110806052
- 3110806053
- OCLC:
- 979783966
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