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History of English Negation.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mazzon, Gabriella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Taylor and Francis, 2016.
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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 Coordination
  • 3.5. 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 Contexts
  • 4.7. '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 Forms
  • References
  • Index.