Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective
  • English negation from an interactional perspective
  • On Negative Raising in the history of English
  • Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish
  • Multiple negation in Middle English verse
  • Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English
  • The facts and nothing but: the (non- )grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English
  • ""Isnâ€?t it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English""""The origin and development of the “Neg ... neitherâ€? construction: a case of grammaticalisation""; ""Affixal and non-affixal negation â€? a case of stable variation over time?""; ""On the scope of Negative Concord""; ""On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English""; ""Index""