Negation in English Speech and Writing
Author | : Gunnel Tottie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Gunnel Tottie |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2020-05-07 |
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ISBN | : |
From the introductory.The nucleus of the following disquisition is the material collected during many years for the chapter on Negatives in vol. III or IV of my Modern English Grammar (abbreviated MEG), of which the first two volumes appeared in 1909 and 1914 respectively (Winter, Heidelberg). But as the war has prevented me (provisionally, I hope) from printing the continuation of my book, I have thought fit to enlarge the scope of this paper by including remarks on other languages so as to deal with the question of Negation in general as expressed in language. Though I am painfully conscious of the inadequacy of my studies, it is my hope that the following pages may be of some interest to the student of linguistic history, and that even a few of my paragraphs may be of some use to the logician. My work in some respects continues what Delbrück has written on negation in Indo-European languages (Vergl. Syntax 2. 519 if.), but while he was more interested in tracing things back to the "ursprache", I have taken more interest in recent developments and in questions of general psychology and logic....
Author | : Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1917 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Phillip W. Wallage |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2017-05-25 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1108298702 |
Informed by detailed analysis of data from large-scale diachronic corpora, this book is a comprehensive account of changes to the expression of negation in English. Its methodological approach brings together up-to-date techniques from corpus linguistics and minimalist syntactic analysis to identify and characterise a series of interrelated changes affecting negation during the period 800–1700. Phillip Wallage uses cutting-edge statistical techniques and large-scale corpora to model changes in English negation over a period of nine hundred years. These models provide crucial empirical evidence which reveals the specific processes of syntactic and functional change affecting early English negation, and identifies diachronic relationships between these processes.
Author | : Yoko Iyeiri |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005-12-08 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9027285357 |
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, which 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 | : Otto Jespersen |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2017-10-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780265474600 |
Excerpt from Negation in English and Other Languages The history of negative expressions in various languages makes us witness the following curious fluctuation: the original negative adverb is first weakened, then found insufficient and therefore strengthened, generally through some additional word, and this in its turn may be felt as the negative proper and may then in course of time be subject to the same develop ment as the original word. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Lieselotte Anderwald |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2003-08-27 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1134513844 |
Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain.
Author | : Gabriella Mazzon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-09-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 131787773X |
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 | : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9783110161984 |
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 | : Laurence R. Horn |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2000-08-03 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0191584398 |
Negation is a central feature of language and cognition, interacting with all areas of grammar as well as with the philosophy of language. Whereas there is a cross-linguistic uniformity in logical and semantic aspects of negation, there is a diversity of syntactic and morphological forms and rules. This asymmetry in function and form poses problems for syntactic and universal grammar theory and for the study of the interface between syntax and discourse. It is particularly evident in negative polarity–words and phrases which can appear only in negative sentences. The exploration of negation and negative polarity phenomena and their implications for linguistic theory are the main themes of this book.