28.2672, Books: Negation in Early English: Wallage

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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:34:24
From: Jack Groutage [jgroutage at cambridge.org]
Subject: Negation in Early English: Wallage

 


Title: Negation in Early English 
Subtitle: Grammatical and Functional Change 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/history-english-language/negation-early-english-grammatical-and-functional-change 


Author: Phillip W. Wallage

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107114296 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 110.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107114296 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 69.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107114296 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 90.99


Abstract:

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.
 



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.
 


Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Syntax
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English, Old (ang)


Written In: English  (eng)

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