“Negation in Different Versions of Chaucer’s Boece: Syntactic Variants and Editing the Text”
This paper explores negative constructions in five different versions of Chaucer’s Boece. The first three are earlier texts: (1) C1 = Cambridge, University Library MS Ii.1.38, (2) C2 = Cambridge, University Library MS Ii.3.21, (3) William Caxton (ed.), Boecius de Consolacione Philosophie.
Yoko Iyeiri, Verbs of Implicit Negation and their Complements in the History of English (John Benjamins, 2010)
This books describes the eleven English verbs forbid, refuse, forbear, avoid, prohibit, prevent, hinder, refrain, fear, doubt, deny and their complementation from the historical perspective. The verbs have experienced the decline of that-clauses and the rise of various complement forms in the history of English.