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A History of English Negation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2004.
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| Colección: | Longman linguistics library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; List of Abbreviations and Conventions; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. General and Typological Issues; Chapter 2. Negation in Old English and Early Middle English; 2.1. Negation in OE Syntax; 2.2. Variation in Old English Negation; 2.3. Some Specific Phenomena and Rules of OE Negation; 2.4. Non-sentential Negation and Negative Affixation; Chapter 3. The Middle Ages and Early Modern English; 3.1. Introduction; 3.2. A Period of Major Syntactic Changes; 3.3. Negation Phenomena in Medieval and Renaissance English.
- 3.4. Negative Coordination3.5. Constituent and Affixal Negation; 3.6. Negation and the New Sentence Structure; 3.7. Genres, Individual Texts and the 'Jungle of ME Manuscripts'; Chapter 4. Present-Day English Negation; 4.0. Interlude: Meta-discourse on English Negation at the Beginning of the Modern English Period; 4.1. The Analysis of Negation in English Linguistics; 4.2. The Placement of Negation in the Modern English Sentence; 4.3. Negation with Indefinites, Quantifiers and Comparatives; 4.4. Negative Coordination; 4.5. The Cliticization of Not: A Relatively Recent Phenomenon.
- 4.6. Inversion in Some Negative Contexts4.7. 'He needn't say but a single word': Various Types of 'Marked' Negation; 4.8. Affixal Negation in Modern English; 4.9. Further Discussion on the Pragmatics of Negation; Chapter 5. Varieties of English; 5.1. Negation Outside the Standard Variety of English; 5.2. Negation in Pidgins and Creoles; Chapter 6. Further Theoretical Considerations and Conclusions; 6.1. Regularities in the Development of Negation; 6.2. Negation and Language Universals; 6.3. History of Negation and Models of Language Change; Appendix I: Sources for Text Analysis.
- Appendix II: Negative FormsReferences; Index.