Negation in Early English: Grammatical and Functional Change

ISBN-13: 9781107114296 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 268 str.

Phillip W. Wallage

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.