Aspects of English negation / / edited by Yoko Iyeiri

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812262203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, c2005
• ISBN: 9786613092410; 90-272-8535-7; 1-283-09241-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (251 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): IyeiriYoko
• Disciplina: 425
• Soggetti: English language - Negatives; English language - Grammar
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Aspects of English Negation -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgement -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: Studies on English Negation and the Present Volume -- References -- Part I: Aspects of Negation in the History of English -- Negative Constructions in Old English: The Question of Cynewulf's Authorship -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Negative constructions in Cynewulf's signed poems -- 3. Conclusion -- References -- Variable Features of Negative Elements in Old English Psalter Glosses -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contraction or noncontraction? -- 3. Un-, noht, butan, and other negative elements -- 4. þyloes orpæt ... ne? -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Appendix -- References -- On Grammaticalization of Negative Adverbs, with Special Reference to Jespersen's Cycle Recast -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Jespersen's negative cycle recast -- 3. Ne and no/na -- 4. No/na and inversion -- 5. No/na in late Old English poetry -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- I not say" Once Again: A Study of the Early History of the "not + finite verb" Type in English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous studies -- 3. Pre-verbal not in early Modern English: what "moderately common" or "pretty frequent in Shakespeare" means -- 4. Not preceding the finite verb in Old and Middle English -- 5. Some features of "not + finite verb" in early Modern English -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Decline of Multiple ; Negation Revisited -- 1. Introduction: Review of Rissanen (2000) -- 2. Decline of multiple negation -- 3. Multiple negation in the Helsinki Corpus -- 4. Summary -- References -- A History of the Negative Interrogative do in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Diaries and Correspondence -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Criteria of analysis -- 3. General diachronic trends.; 4. Verbs and linguistic environments in which the simple negative interrogative are residuals -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Aspects of Negation in Present-day English -- Negative Concord in British English Dialects -- 1. Introduction: History of English -- 2. Source of data -- 3. Defining the variable -- 4. Structural possibilities -- 5. Regional distribution BNC -- 6. Regional comparison FRED -- 7. Why does negative concord persist? -- 8. Negative concord in the English North -- 9. Negation in Old Norse -- 10. Conclusion -- References -- No, nay, never: Negation in Tyneside English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Structural attributes of negation -- 3. Negation in Tyneside English -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- A Corpus-based Study of the haven't NP Pattern in American English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous statements about the haven't NP pattern in American English -- 3. Corpus search -- 4. Frequent collocational patterns in the haven't NP pattern in American English -- 5. The have no N pattern -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Negation in African American Vernacular English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. AAVE -- 3. ain't -- 4. Negative concord and related patterns -- 5. Conclusion -- References -- Subjective Meanings of Except-linkage in Present-day English in Comparison with Including -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Except and including -- 3. Pragmatic aspects of except-linkage -- 4. Survey of Collins Wordbanks Online -- 5. Concluding remarks -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, which focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.