“Multiple Negation in Middle English Verse”

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Multiple negation in Middle English

The discussion in this paper is based on various Middle English verse texts from Poema Morale to Stanzaic Morte Arthur. It deals with different types of multiple negation, demonstrating that the phenomenon was more frequent in elevated style of language in the Middle English period.

This volumes derives from a conference (“Colloquium on Negation in the History of English”) held in Leiden in December 1994.

Related publications

• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2013. “Cognitive Aspects of Negation in The Tale of Melibee, The Parson’s Tale, and A Treatise on the Astrolabe“, in Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspectives, ed. Yoshiyuki Nakao & Yoko Iyeiri, pp. 5-25. Suita: Osaka Books.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2010. “Negation in Different Versions of Chaucer’s Boece: Syntactic Variants and Editing the Text”. English Studies 91: 826-837.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2010. “Negation in Fragments A, B and C of the Hunter Manuscript of The Romaunt of the Rose“, in Language Change and Variation from Old English to Late Modern English: A Festschrift for Minoji Akimoto, ed. Merja Kytö, John Scahill & Harumi Tanabe, pp. 79-101. Bern: Peter Lang.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2008. “Unsupported Negative ne in Later Middle English”. Notes and Queries n.s. 55: 21-23.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2007. ”Decline of Some Middle English Features of Negation in the Fifteenth Century: A Study of The Paston Letters“, in Language and Beyond: A Festschrift for Hiroshi Yonekuraon the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, ed. Mayumi Sawada, Larry Walker, & Shizuya Tara, pp. 249-63. Tokyo: Eichosha.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2002. “Decline of Multiple Negation in Middle English: The Case of Caxton’s Reynard the Fox“, in Studies in English Historical Linguistics and Philology: A Festschrift for Akio Oizumi, ed. Jacek Fisiak, pp. 121-27. Peter Lang.
• Iyeiri, Yoko. 2001. Negative Constructions in Middle English. Fukuoka: Kyushu University Press.