Negation in the history of English (Mouton de Gruyter, 1999)
Papers originally presented at a conference held at the University of Leiden on Dec. 15-16, 1994. - Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references and index
""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective""; ""English negation from an interactional perspective""; ""On Negative Raising in the history of English""; ""Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish""; ""Multiple negation in Middle English verse""; ""Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English""; ""The facts and nothing but: the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English""
""Isnâ€?t it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English""""The origin and development of the â€Neg ... neitherâ€? construction: a case of grammaticalisation""; ""Affixal and non-affixal negation â€? a case of stable variation over time?""; ""On the scope of Negative Concord""; ""On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English""; ""Index""