Phillip W. Wallage

Negation in Early English

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781107114296
• ISBN-10: 1107114292
• Artikelnr.: 48224659

Autorenporträt

Phillip Wallage is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Northumbria University, Newcastle. His work on syntactic change in the history of English (principally focusing on negation) has been published in journals including Lingua and English Language and Linguistics.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Quantitative evidence for a model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
3. Distributional evidence for two types of ne: redundant negation
4. Distributional evidence for different types of 'not'
5. The syntax of early English Jespersen Cycle: a morphosyntactic feature-based account
6. The role of functional change in the Jespersen Cycle
7. Negative concord in Early English
8. Negative inversion: evidence for a quantifier cycle in early English
9. The loss of negative concord: interaction between the quantifier cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
10. Conclusion.