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What is Aspects of English Negation about?

This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical research into the development of English negation and analyses of syntactic variations in Present-day English negation. The first part "Aspects of Negation in the History of English" includes six contributions, which focus on the usages of the negative adverbs __ne__ and __not__, the decline of negative concord, and the development of the auxiliary __do__ in negation. Most of the themes discussed here are then linked to the second part "Aspects of Negation in Present-day English". Especially, the issue of negative concord is repeatedly explored by three of the five papers in this part, one related to British English dialects in general, another to Tyneside English, and the other to African American Vernacular English. This book uniquely highlights the importance of continuity from Old English to Present-day English, while, in its introduction, it provides a useful detailed survey of previous studies on English negation.

Who reads Aspects of English Negation?

Author

Dr. Yoko Iyeiri

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company ; Yushodo Press

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9789027232311

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Linguistics, Language Learning, Literary Fiction