LEADER 03101oam 2200589Ma 450 001 9910957317003321 005 20251117081857.0 010 $a1-315-83872-9 010 $a1-317-87772-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315838724 035 $a(CKB)3710000000865369 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4693155 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4693155 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11269112 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL955487 035 $a(OCoLC)959150535 035 $a(OCoLC)961208784 035 $a(OCoLC)1124359111 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1124359111 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315838724 035 $a(BIP)63735005 035 $a(BIP)68517665 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000865369 100 $a20190524d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 12$aA history of English negation /$fGabriella Mazzon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2018 215 $a1 online resource (198 pages) $cillustrations, tables 225 1 $aLongman linguistics library 300 $aFirst published 2004 by Pearson Education Limited. 311 08$a1-138-17962-0 311 08$a0-582-38185-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $ach. 1. General and typological issues -- ch. 2. Negation in Old English and early Middle English -- ch. 3. The Middle Ages and early modern English -- ch. 4. Present-day English negation -- ch. 5. Varieties of English -- ch. 6. Further theoretical considerations and conclusions. 330 $aNegation is one of the main functions in human communication.A History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter, the book analyses evidence from the whole sample of Old English documents available, and from several Middle English and Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at any single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably faster, than previously commonly assumed. The book moves on to review current formalised accounts of the situation in Modern English, tracing the changes in rules for expressing negation that have intervened since the earliest documented history of the language. Since the standard is only one variety of a language, it also surveys the means of negation used in some non-standard and dialectal varieties of English. The book concludes with a look at relatively recently born languages such as Pidgins and Creoles, to investigate the degree of naturalness of the principles that rule the expression of English negation. 410 0$aLongman linguistics library. 606 $aEnglish language$xNegatives 615 0$aEnglish language$xNegatives. 676 $a425 676 $a425 700 $aMazzon$b Gabriella$f1962-$0186880 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910957317003321 996 $aA history of English negation$94471886 997 $aUNINA