“‘God forbid!’: A Historical Study of the Verb forbid in Different Versions of the English Bible”

Bibliographical details

Iyeiri, Yoko. 2003. “‘God forbid!’: A Historical Study of the Verb forbid in Different Versions of the English Bible”. Journal of English Linguistics 31: 149-62.

Major arguments in this paper have been updated, revised, and incorporated into Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English (John Benjamins, 2010). It is advised to have a look at this more recent publication.

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