Negation in the history of English /

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Imprint:	Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Topics in English linguistics ; 26 Topics in English linguistics ; 26.
Subject:	English language -- Negatives -- Congresses. English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses. English language -- Grammar, Historical. English language -- Negatives. Conference papers and proceedings.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11182078

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Other authors / contributors:	Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid. Tottie, Gunnel, 1937- Wurff, Wim van der. Conference "Negation in the History of English" (1994 : University of Leiden)
ISBN:	9783110806052 3110806053 3110161982 9783110161984
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed April 23, 2013).
Other form:	Print version: Negation in the history of English. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999 3110161982

Table of Contents:

""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective""; ""English negation from an interactional perspective""; ""On Negative Raising in the history of English""; ""Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish""; ""Multiple negation in Middle English verse""; ""Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English""; ""The facts and nothing but: the (non- )grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English""
""Isnâ€?t it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English""""The origin and development of the â€œNeg ... neitherâ€? construction: a case of grammaticalisation""; ""Affixal and non-affixal negation â€? a case of stable variation over time?""; ""On the scope of Negative Concord""; ""On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English""; ""Index""

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