Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quantitative Evidence for a Model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
- 3 Distributional Evidence for Two Types of ne: Redundant Negation
- 4 Distributional Evidence for Different Types of not
- 5 The Syntax of the Early English Jespersen Cycle: A Morphosyntactic Feature-based Account
- 6 The Role of Functional Change in the Jespersen Cycle
- 7 Negative Concord in Early English
- 8 Negative Inversion: Evidence for a Quantifier Cycle in Early English
- 9 The Loss of Negative Concord: Interaction Between the Quantifier Cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
List of tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 July 2017
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Quantitative Evidence for a Model of the Jespersen Cycle in Middle English
- 3 Distributional Evidence for Two Types of ne: Redundant Negation
- 4 Distributional Evidence for Different Types of not
- 5 The Syntax of the Early English Jespersen Cycle: A Morphosyntactic Feature-based Account
- 6 The Role of Functional Change in the Jespersen Cycle
- 7 Negative Concord in Early English
- 8 Negative Inversion: Evidence for a Quantifier Cycle in Early English
- 9 The Loss of Negative Concord: Interaction Between the Quantifier Cycle and the Jespersen Cycle
- 10 Conclusion
- References
- Index of names
- Index of subjects
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- Negation in Early EnglishGrammatical and Functional Change, pp. xi - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017