Anne Breitbarth

The History of Low German Negation

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon to Middle Low German. It is the first substantial diachronic analysis of these changes and looks at both the development of standard negation and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199687282
• ISBN-10: 0199687285
• Artikelnr.: 40875076

Autorenporträt

Anne Breitbarth is a Lecturer in Historical German Linguistics at Ghent University, where her research focuses on Germanic historical syntax. She has previously held posts at Tilburg, where she completed a PhD on auxiliary ellipsis in Early New High German in 2005, and Cambridge, where she was a Research Associate in the AHRC project âThe development of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterraneanâ. She is co-editor, with David Willis and Christopher Lucas, of the two OUP volumes resulting from this project, The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean (Vol 1 2013; Vol 2 forthcoming). Together with Sheila Watts (Cambridge) and George Walkden (Manchester), she is currently working on a parsed corpus of historical Low German.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: The expression of standard negation
3: Indefinites in the scope of negation
4: Theoretical background
5: The development of negation in Low German
6: Conclusion