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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean - Volume I Case Studies (Hardcover)
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The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean - Volume I Case Studies (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 5
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This is the first book in a two-volume comparative history of
negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. The work
integrates typological, general, and theoretical research,
documents patterns and directions of change in negation across
languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie
behind such changes. The first volume presents linked case studies
of particular languages and language groups, including French,
Italian, English, Dutch, German, Celtic, Slavonic, Greek, Uralic,
and Afro-Asiatic. Each outlines and analyses the development of
sentential negation and of negative indefinites and quantifiers,
including negative concord and, where appropriate,
language-specific topics such as the negation of infinitives,
negative imperatives, and constituent negation. The second volume
(to be pubished in 2014) will offer comparative analyses of changes
in negation systems of European and north African languages and set
out an integrated framework for understanding them. The aim of both
is a universal understanding of the syntax of negation and how it
changes. Their authors develop formal models in the light of data
drawn from historical linguistics, especially on processes of
grammaticalization, and consider related effects on language
acquisition and language contact. At the same time the books seek
to advance models of historical syntax more generally and to show
the value of uniting perspectives from different theoretical
frameworks.
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