Record Nr.

UNINA9910975312603321

Autore

Jager Agnes

Titolo

History of German negation / / Agnes Jager

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub., 2008

ISBN

9786612152214

9781282152212

1282152211

9789027291554

9027291551

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 350 pages)

Collana

Linguistik aktuell/Linguistics today, , 0166-0829 ; ; v. 118

Classificazione

GC 1804

Disciplina

435

Soggetti

German language - Negatives

German language - Syntax - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena, 2006.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History of German Negation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 1.1. Aim and Scope of the Investigation -- 1.2. Empirical basis and theoretical framework -- 1.3. Negation - Basic concepts -- 2. THE NEGATION PARTICLE -- 2.1. Typology of negation particles -- 2.2. NegP analysis -- 2.3. The negation particle in Modern German -- 2.4. The negation particle in Old High German -- 2.5. The negation particle in Middle High German -- 2.6. Summary -- 3. INDEFINITES IN THE SCOPE OF NEGATION AND NEGATIVE CONCORD -- 3.1. Typology of indefinites in the scope of negation -- 3.2. Typology of Negative Concord -- 3.3. Theories of n-indefinites and NC -- 3.4. Indefinites and NC in Modern German -- 3.5. Old High German n-indefinites and NC -- 3.6. Middle High German n-indefinites and NC -- 3.7. Summary -- 4. CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Primary sources -- Secondary references -- INDEX -- The series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today.

Sommario/riassunto

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of

negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several Old and Middle High German texts, it comprises a wealth of historical examples with additional comparison to Modern Standard German and dialects, as well as crosslinguistic data from a variety of languages. The findings are placed in the context of typological research and are analysed in terms of current syntactic and semantic theory of negation arguing for an unchanged underlying syntactic structure, with changes in the lexical filling of NegP and in the lexical features of indefinites resulting in crucial changes in the syntactic patterns of negation. This book is of interest to scholars of German linguistics, historical linguists, as well as anyone working in the field of negation.