Negation in Early English

Phillip W. Wallage

doi:10.1017/9781316335185

Informed by detailed analysis of data from large-scale diachronic corpora, this book is a comprehensive account of changes to the expression of negation in English. Its methodological approach brings together up-to-date techniques from corpus linguistics and minimalist syntactic analysis to identify and characterise a series of interrelated changes affecting negation during the period 800–1700. Phillip Wallage uses cutting-edge statistical techniques and large-scale corpora to model changes in English negation over a period of nine hundred years. These models provide crucial empirical evidence which reveals the specific processes of syntactic and functional change affecting early English negation, and identifies diachronic relationships between these processes.

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Dedication
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations
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1 - Introduction
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2 - Quantitative Evidence for a Model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
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3 - Distributional Evidence for Two Types of ne: Redundant Negation
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4 - Distributional Evidence for Different Types of not
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5 - The Syntax of the Early English Jespersen Cycle: A Morphosyntactic Feature-based Account
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6 - The Role of Functional Change in the Jespersen Cycle
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7 - Negative Concord in Early English
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8 - Negative Inversion: Evidence for a Quantifier Cycle in Early English
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9 - The Loss of Negative Concord: Interaction Between the Quantifier Cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
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10 - Conclusion
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References
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Index of subjects
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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Dedication
pp vii-viii

Contents
pp ix-ix

List of figures
pp x-x

List of tables
pp xi-xiv

Acknowledgements
pp xv-xvi

Abbreviations
pp xvii-xviii

1 - Introduction
pp 1-10

2 - Quantitative Evidence for a Model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
pp 11-37

3 - Distributional Evidence for Two Types of ne: Redundant Negation
pp 38-58

4 - Distributional Evidence for Different Types of not
pp 59-84

5 - The Syntax of the Early English Jespersen Cycle: A Morphosyntactic Feature-based Account
pp 85-111

6 - The Role of Functional Change in the Jespersen Cycle
pp 112-147

7 - Negative Concord in Early English
pp 148-159

8 - Negative Inversion: Evidence for a Quantifier Cycle in Early English
pp 160-180

9 - The Loss of Negative Concord: Interaction Between the Quantifier Cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
pp 181-198

10 - Conclusion
pp 199-208

References
pp 209-216

Index of names
pp 217-218

Index of subjects
pp 219-221

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