“Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose”

This paper approaches the authorship of the Middle English translation of The Romaunt of the Rose, which comprises Fragment A, B, and C from syntactic perspectives, with a focus on negative constructions. The results include the following findings: Fragment A is the most conservative and it is Chaucerian; Fragment B is the most progressive; and Fragment C often shows intermediate positions between A and B, but is more similar to B linguistically than A.

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