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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462464903321

Titolo

Negation in the history of English [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999, c1998

ISBN

3-11-080605-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2011]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (343 p.)

Collana

Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] ; ; 26

Altri autori (Persone)

Tieken-Boon van OstadeIngrid

TottieGunnel <1937->

WurffWim van der

Disciplina

425

Soggetti

English language - Negatives

English language - Grammar, Historical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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