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Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A
History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English
negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide
database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter,
the book analyses evidence from the whole sample of Old English
documents available, and from several Middle English and
Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at any
single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably
faster, than previously commonly assumed. The book moves on to
review current formalised accounts of the situation in Modern
English, tracing the changes in rules for expressing negation that
have intervened since the earliest documented history of the
language. Since the standard is only one variety of a language, it
also surveys the means of negation used in some non-standard and
dialectal varieties of English. The book concludes with a look at
relatively recently born languages such as Pidgins and Creoles, to
investigate the degree of naturalness of the principles that rule
the expression of English negation.
Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A
History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English
negation over the whole of its documented history, using a wide
database and accessible terminology. After an introductory chapter,
the book analyses evidence from the whole sample of Old English
documents available, and from several Middle English and
Renaissance documents, showing that the range of forms used at any
single stage is wider, and the pace of their change considerably
faster, than previously commonly assumed. The book moves on to
review current formalised accounts of the situation in Modern
English, tracing the changes in rules for expressing negation that
have intervened since the earliest documented history of the
language. Since the standard is only one variety of a language, it
also surveys the means of negation used in some non-standard and
dialectal varieties of English. The book concludes with a look at
relatively recently born languages such as Pidgins and Creoles, to
investigate the degree of naturalness of the principles that rule
the expression of English negation.
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