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Title Negation in the history of English / edited by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Gunnel Tottie, Wim van der Wurff.

Publication Info. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Topics in English linguistics ; 26
Topics in English linguistics ; 26.
Note Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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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""
""Isn�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 “Neg ... neither� construction: a case of grammaticalisation""; ""Affixal and non-affixal negation � 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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Subject English language -- Negatives -- Congresses.
English language -- Negatives.
English language -- Grammar, Historical -- Congresses.
English language -- Grammar, Historical.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.
Tottie, Gunnel, 1937-
Wurff, Wim van der.
Conference "Negation in the History of English" (1994 : University of Leiden)
Other Form: Print version: Negation in the history of English. Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1999 3110161982 (DLC) 98042858 (OCoLC)39875183
ISBN 9783110806052 (electronic book)
3110806053 (electronic book)
3110161982 (electronic book)
9783110161984 (electronic book)