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The History of Low German Negation (Hardcover)
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The History of Low German Negation (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 13
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This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low
German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German
is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates
both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle,
and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and
indefinites in its scope, giving rise to negative concord along the
way. Anne Breitbarth shows that developments in Low German form a
missing link between those in High German, English, and Dutch,
which have been much more widely researched. These changes are
analysed using a generative account of syntactic change combined
with minimalist assumptions concerning the syntax of negation and
negative concord. The book provides the first substantial,
diachronic analysis of the development of the expression of
negation through the Old Saxon and Middle Low German periods, and
will be of interest not only to students and researchers in the
history of German, but also to all those working on the syntax of
negation from a diachronic and synchronic perspective.
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