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This is the second 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 aim of both volumes is to set out an
integrated framework for understanding the syntax of negation and
how it changes. While the first volume (OUP, 2013) presented linked
case studies of particular languages and language groups, this
second volume constructs a holistic approach to explaining the
patterns of historical change found in the languages of Europe and
the Mediterranean over the last millennium. It identifies typical
developments found repeatedly in the histories of different
languages and explores their origins, as well as investigating the
factors that determine whether change proceeds rapidly, slowly, or
not at all. Language-internal factors such as the interaction of
syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and the biases inherent in child
language acquisition, are investigated alongside language-external
factors such as imposition, convergence, and borrowing. The book
proposes an explicit formal account of language-internal and
contact-induced change for both the expression of sentential
negation ('not') and negative indefinites ('anyone', 'nothing'). It
sheds light on the major ways in which negative systems develop, on
the nature of syntactic change, and indeed on linguistic change
more generally, demonstrating the insights that large-scale
comparison of linguistic histories can offer.
Long before David Letterman made it a nightly ritual, groupings of
ten seemed to be the most common form of list making (commandments,
amendments, FBI most wanted, etc.) Top 10 lists abound for
everything today, from movies and music to sports and politics.
There is so much Disney history to cover, however, that it can't be
contained in one simple list, thus "The Top 100 Top Ten of Disney."
There is not a person on Earth who hasn't come into contact with
Disney in some way. Whether seeing a Disney film, hearing a Disney
song, recognizing a Disney character or visiting a Disney park, the
company's reach is global. The Top 100 Top Ten of Disney will
collect the best of the best of Disney in a book of lists. From
Walt himself and the beginning of his company, to his successors
who have broadened the reach of the Disney brand well beyond where
even Walt could have imagined it, this book will cover every aspect
of the 93 years of history that Disney has to offer. In it you will
find information on everything from Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and
Queen Elsa, to the billion dollar acquisitions of Marvel and
Lucasfilm. Written for casual and die-hard fans alike, The Top 100
Top Ten of Disney will revisit some familiar characters, films,
songs, rides, and personalities associated with Disney but will
also uncover some forgotten, obscure and overlooked parts of the
company as well, such as the unlikely Disney films Victory Through
Air Power (1943) and The Story of Menstruation (1946). The book
will be laid out in easy to read "bite size" pieces. It will be one
of those books that the whole family can enjoy and can be picked up
and referred to again and again. Author Bio: Christopher Lucas is a
lifelong fan of all things Disney. His admiration for Walt, and the
company he built, led Chris to create a one person show called "Of
Mouse and Man" which has been performed in several colleges,
theaters and civic centers. He is also the co-author of Seeing
Home: The Ed Lucas Story, the critically acclaimed book released by
Simon & Schuster and Derek Jeter Publishing in April 2015.
Christopher lives in suburban New Jersey with his two young sons.
His goal someday is to take a vacation somewhere that doesn't
involve a visit to a Disney theme park.
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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