Aspects Of English Negation

Author : Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027232311

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Aspects of English Negation by Yoko Iyeiri Pdf

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, that 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.

Author : Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027211705

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Verbs of Implicit Negation and Their Complements in the History of English by Yoko Iyeiri Pdf

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. "forbid," "forbear," "avoid," "prohibit," and "prevent") have experienced in the history of English. "Forbid," for example, was once followed by "that"-clauses, while in contemporary English it is in usual cases followed by "to"-infinitives except in the fixed form "God forbid" "that" Although a number of English verbs have undergone similar syntactic changes, the paths they have selected in their historical development are not always the same. Unlike "forbid," the verb "prevent" is now followed by gerunds often with the preposition "from." This book describes some of the most representative paths followed by different verbs of implicit negation and reveals the major complement shifts that have occurred throughout the history of English. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students specializing in English linguistics, historical linguistics, and corpus linguistics."

Author : Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Gunnel Tottie,Wim van der Wurff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 3110161982

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Negation in the History of English by Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade,Gunnel Tottie,Wim van der Wurff Pdf

The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics in English Linguistics lies in empirical studies, which integrate work in English linguistics into general and theoretical linguistics on the one hand, and comparative linguistics on the other. The TiEL series features volumes that present interesting new data and analyses, and above all fresh approaches that contribute to the overall aim of the series, which is to further outstanding research in English linguistics. For further publications in English linguistics see also our Dialects of English book series. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Natalie Fecher.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317877738

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A History of English Negation by Gabriella Mazzon Pdf

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.

Author : Laurence R. Horn
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110219296

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The Expression of Negation by Laurence R. Horn Pdf

Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of negative sentences in a variety of languages and offers state-of-the-art surveys of the acquisition of negation by children, its processing by adults, its historical development, and its interaction with other operators and predicates within natural language sentences. Topics covered include the nature of negative polarity, the phenomenon of pleonastic or illogical negation, and the role of morphological, syntactic, semantic, pragmatic.

Author : Phillip Wallage
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107114296

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Negation in Early English by Phillip Wallage Pdf

This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time.

Author : Gunnel Tottie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UCSC:32106009788503

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Negation in English Speech and Writing by Gunnel Tottie Pdf

Author : Lieselotte Anderwald
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134513833

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Negation in Non-Standard British English by Lieselotte Anderwald Pdf

Despite the advances of radio and television and increasing mobility and urbanization, spoken English is by no means becoming more like the written standard. English dialect grammar, however, is still a new and relatively undeveloped area of research, and most studies to date are either restricted regionally, or based on impressionistic statements. This book provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation across Great Britain.

Author : Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027263155

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Negation and Negative Concord by Viviane Déprez,Fabiola Henri Pdf

While universally present in languages, negation is well-known to manifest a surprising cross-linguistic diversity of forms. In creole languages, however, negation and negative dependencies have been regarded as largely uniform. Creole languages as Bickerton claims in Roots of Language, generally exhibit negative concord, a construction popularly dubbed ‘double negation’, where several expressions, each negative on its own, come together with a logic-defying single negation interpretation. While this construction – problematic for compositionality if the meaning of sentences emerge from the meaning of their parts – has fostered much research, the fertile data terrain that creole languages offer for its understanding is rarely taken into account. Aiming at bridging this gap, this book offers a wealth of theoretically informed empirical investigations of negative relations in a wide variety of creole languages. Uncovering a far more complex negative landscape than previously assumed, the book reveals the challenging richness that a thorough comparative study of creoles delivers.

Author : Otto Jespersen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : English language
ISBN : NWU:35556004784385

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Negation in English and Other Languages by Otto Jespersen Pdf

Author : Liliane Haegeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1995-03-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521464925

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The Syntax of Negation by Liliane Haegeman Pdf

Demonstrates sentential negation within a Government and Binding framework, showing parallelism between negative and interrogative sentences.

Author : Debra Ziegeler,Zhiming Bao
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265944

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Negation and Contact by Debra Ziegeler,Zhiming Bao Pdf

The study of negation across languages has left no stone unturned with respect to a range of frequently-researched areas, such as negative raising, negative concord, and the behavior of quantifiers under negative scope. Past research has chiefly focused on the category of negation from a cross-linguistic perspective, with probably less attention devoted to the study of negation across dialects of languages, or across contact languages. The observation of universal quantification in the scope of negation in the English spoken in Singapore, for example, is an area which has been largely under-researched in the literature, as has the rarely-reported phenomenon of negative raising in Singapore English. The present volume profiles some of the problems of negation in English and Singapore English, framed against the background of studies of negation in other contact dialects of English and pidgins/creoles, and offering a diverse range of theoretical approaches to the problems.

Author : Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780198830528

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The Oxford Handbook of Negation by Viviane Déprez,M. Teresa Espinal Pdf

In this volume, international experts in negation provide a comprehensive overview of cross-linguistic and philosophical research in the field, as well as accounts of more recent results from experimental linguistics, psycholinguistics, and neuroscience. The volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to a range of fundamental questions ranging from why negation displays so many distinct linguistic forms to how prosody and gesture participate in the interpretation of negative utterances. Following an introduction from the editors, the chapters are arranged in eight parts that explore, respectively, the fundamentals of negation; issues in syntax; the syntax-semantics interface; semantics and pragmatics; negative dependencies; synchronic and diachronic variation; the emergence and acquisition of negation; and experimental investigations of negation. The volume will be an essential reference for students and researchers across a wide range of disciplines, and will facilitate further interdisciplinary work in the field.

Author : Gabriella Mazzon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317877721

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A History of English Negation by Gabriella Mazzon Pdf

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.

Author : Yoko Iyeiri
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027285126

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Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English by Yoko Iyeiri Pdf

For sale in all countries except Japan. For customers in Japan: please contact Yushodo Co. The principal focus of this book concerns various shifts of complements which verbs of implicit negation (e.g. forbid, forbear, avoid, prohibit, and prevent) have experienced in the history of English. Forbid, for example, was once followed by that-clauses, while in contemporary English it is in usual cases followed by to-infinitives except in the fixed form God forbid that ... Although a number of English verbs have undergone similar syntactic changes, the paths they have selected in their historical development are not always the same. Unlike forbid, the verb prevent is now followed by gerunds often with the preposition from. This book describes some of the most representative paths followed by different verbs of implicit negation and reveals the major complement shifts that have occurred throughout the history of English. It will be of particular interest to researchers and students specializing in English linguistics, historical linguistics, and corpus linguistics.