Chaucer’s Language: Cognitive Perspective, which has been edited by Yoshiyuki Nakao and Yoko Iyeiri, includes six papers on Chaucer and cognition written by Japanese Chaucerians and Middle English specialists.
The conference, MMECL: Middle and Modern English Corpus Linguistics, held at the University of Innsbruck in 2009, was an excellent occasion, where we discussed various issues on historical corpora and variation and change of the English language from Middle to Modern English. This volume, edited by the conference organizers, includes selected papers presented at this conference.
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.