This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical res

This volume traces the history of negation in English from Old and Middle English through to Modern Standard English and other varieties of English. It discusse

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This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential ne

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 d