Yoko Iyeiri (ed.), Aspects of English Negation (John Benjamins, 2005)
Aspects of English Negation originates from the symposium “English Negative Constructions Revisited”, which was held at Seikei University, Tokyo, on the occasion of the 75th General Meeting of the English Literary Society of Japan. It includes eleven articles discussing various aspects of English negation from the Old English period to the present day.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
List of abbreviations
Introduction: Studies on English Negation and the Present Volume
Yoko Iyeiri
Part I: Aspects of Negation in the History of English
Negative Constructions in Old English: The Question of Cynewulf’s Authorship
Jun Terasawa
Variable Features of Negative Elements in Old English Psalter Glosses
Michiko Ogura
On Grammaticalization of Negative Adverbs, with Special Reference to Jespersen’s Cycle Recast
OHKADO Masayuki
“I not say” Once Again: A Study of the Early History of the “not + finite verb” Type in English
Yoko Iyeiri
Decline of Multiple Negation Revisited
Hideo Nishimura
A History of the Negative Interrogative do in Seventeenth- to Nineteenth-Century Diaries and Correspondence
Fujio Nakamura
Part II: Aspects of Negation in Present-day English
Negative Concord in British English Dialects
Lieselotte Anderwald
No, nay, never: Negation in Tyneside English
Joan C. Beal & Karen P. Corrigan
A Corpus-based Study of the haven’t NP Pattern in American English
Naohiro Takizawa
Negation in African American Vernacular English
Darin Howe
Subjective Meanings of Except-linkage in Present-day English in Comparison with Including
Mitsumi Uchida
Name index
Subject index
