Van Ostade Ingrid Tieken-Boon, Tottie Gunnel, Van der Wurff Wim (eds.) Negation in the History of English

Reprint 2011th Ed. — De Gruyter Mouton, 1998. — 344 p. — (Topics in English Linguistics [TiEL] 26). — ISBN10: 3110161982, 13 978-3110161984.Contains 12 papers on negation in the history of English, most of them dealing with multiple negation or the mobility of the negative element. The contributions represent different theoretical and methodological approaches. Other papers seek functional explanations of the investigated problems.
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