The Evolution of Negation. Beyond the Jespersen Cycle

[Larrivee Pierre]

Dear all 

I'm happy to announce that the book 'The Evolution of
Negation. Beyond the Jespersen Cycle' edited by Richard Ingham and me is
now out with Mouton de Gruyter.


http://www.degruyter.de/view/product/174115?rskey=t9wCJG&result=1&q=larrivee%20tilsm
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Proposing papers and their discussion by leading functionalist
and formalist specialists of the history of negation, the volume offers
a reconceptualisation of the notion of cycle as a consequence of the
development of (families of) items, rather than as a syntactic process
applying uniformly to a language variety. With special emphasis on
English and French, the novel and substantial analyses brought together
here will contribute to move forward the research agenda on the
evolution of grammatical systems. 

_Pierre Larrivée. _Is there a
Jespersen cycle? 1-27 

___Theresa Biberauer & Ian Roberts. _Negative
words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar
puzzles. 29-67 

_Marie Labelle. _Negative words and negation in French.
69-86 

_Ans van Kemenade. Secondary negation and information structure
organisation in the History of English. 87-124_ 

_Eric Haeberli.
Looking high and low for NegP in early English. 125-156_ 

_Richard
Ingham. _Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English.
157-176 

_Jack Hoeksema_. Looking at Middle English through the mirror
of Anglo-Norman. 177-190 

_France Martineau._ Ne-absence in declarative
and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change. 191-224


_Paul Rowlett. _The early absence of the French negative marker ne.
225-241 

_Viviane Déprez. _Atoms of negation: An outside-in
micro-parametric approach to Negative Concord. 243-299 

_Maj-Britt
Mosegaard Hansen_. Viviane Déprez: "Atoms of negation. An outside-in
micro-parametric approach to negative concord." Discussion. 301-312


_David Willis. _Negative polarity and the Quantifier Cycle:
Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages. 313-356


_Johan van der Auwera & Lauren Van Alsenoy. _Indefinite pronouns,
synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis. 357-379 

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