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Author | : Yoko Iyeiri |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027232318 |
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This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, that focus on the usages of the negative adverbs ne and not, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary do in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.
Author | : Laurence R. Horn |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 3110219298 |
Download The Expression of Negation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.
Author | : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110161984 |
Download Negation in the History of English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.
Author | : Gabriella Mazzon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-09-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131787773X |
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Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter, the book analyses evidence from the whole sample of Old English documents available, and from several Middle English and Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at any single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably faster, than previously commonly assumed. The book moves on to review current formalised accounts of the situation in Modern English, tracing the changes in rules for expressing negation that have intervened since the earliest documented history of the language. Since the standard is only one variety of a language, it also surveys the means of negation used in some non-standard and dialectal varieties of English. The book concludes with a look at relatively recently born languages such as Pidgins and Creoles, to investigate the degree of naturalness of the principles that rule the expression of English negation.
Author | : Ambjörn Sjörs |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 2018-01-09 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9004348557 |
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In Historical Aspects of Standard Negation in Semitic Ambjörn Sjörs describes the grammar of verbal negation in a wide selection of Semitic languages with an emphasis on the historical change of negative expressions.
Author | : Viviane Déprez |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2018-12-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027263159 |
Download Negation and Negative Concord Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.
Author | : Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Yoko Iyeiri |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027211701 |
Download Verbs of Implicit Negation and Their Complements in the History of English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. "forbid," "forbear," "avoid," "prohibit," and "prevent") have experienced in the history of English. "Forbid," for example, was once followed by "that"-clauses, while in contemporary English it is in usual cases followed by "to"-infinitives except in the fixed form "God forbid" "that" Although a number of English verbs have undergone similar syntactic changes, the paths they have selected in their historical development are not always the same. Unlike "forbid," the verb "prevent" is now followed by gerunds often with the preposition "from." This book describes some of the most representative paths followed by different verbs of implicit negation and reveals the major complement shifts that have occurred throughout the history of English. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students specializing in English linguistics, historical linguistics, and corpus linguistics."
Author | : Gunnel Tottie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Negation in English Speech and Writing Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Lukács Ágota |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 57 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Grammar, Comparative and general |
ISBN | : |
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