Table Of ContentNegation in Early English
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overaperiodofninehundredyears.Thesemodelsprovidecrucialempirical
evidence which reveals the specific processes of syntactic and functional
changeaffectingearlyEnglishnegation,andidentifiesdiachronicrelation-
shipsbetweentheseprocesses.
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historyofEnglish(principallyfocusingonnegation)hasbeenpublishedin
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Negation in Early
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Grammatical and Functional Change
PHILLIP W. WALLAGE
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subjects:lcsh:Englishlanguage–Negatives.|Englishlanguage–OldEnglish,
ca.450-1100–Grammar.|Englishlanguage–MiddleEnglish,
1100-1500–Grammar.|Englishlanguage–Variation.|Linguisticchange.|
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Contents
Listoffigures pagex
Listoftables xi
Acknowledgements xv
Abbreviations xvii
1 Introduction 1
2 QuantitativeEvidenceforaModeloftheJespersenCyclein
MiddleEnglish 11
3 DistributionalEvidenceforTwoTypesofne:RedundantNegation 38
4 DistributionalEvidenceforDifferentTypesofnot 59
5 TheSyntaxoftheEarlyEnglishJespersenCycle:
AMorphosyntacticFeature-basedAccount 85
6 TheRoleofFunctionalChangeintheJespersenCycle 112
7 NegativeConcordinEarlyEnglish 148
8 NegativeInversion:EvidenceforaQuantifierCycle
inEarlyEnglish 160
9 TheLossofNegativeConcord:InteractionBetweenthe
QuantifierCycleandtheJespersenCycle 181
10 Conclusion 199
References 209
Indexofnames 217
Indexofsubjects 219
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