Negation in Early English
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Negation in Early English

Grammatical and Functional Change

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Negation in Early English

Grammatical and Functional Change

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of figures
  9. List of tables
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. List of abbreviations
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 Quantitative Evidence for a Model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
  14. 3 Distributional Evidence for Two Types of ne: Redundant Negation
  15. 4 Distributional Evidence for Different Types of not
  16. 5 The Syntax of the Early English Jespersen Cycle: A Morphosyntactic Feature-based Account
  17. 6 The Role of Functional Change in the Jespersen Cycle
  18. 7 Negative Concord in Early English
  19. 8 Negative Inversion: Evidence for a Quantifier Cycle in Early English
  20. 9 The Loss of Negative Concord: Interaction Between the Quantifier Cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
  21. 10 Conclusion
  22. References
  23. Index of names
  24. Index of subjects