
The Diachrony of Negation
John Benjamins Publishing Co
Published on 24. October 2014
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-90-272-5925-7 (ISBN)
Description
Despite intensive research, negation remains elusive. Its expression across languages, its underlying cognitive mechanisms, its development across time, and related phenomena, such as negative polarity and negative concord, leave many unresolved issues of both a definitional and a substantive nature. Such issues are at the heart of the present volume, which presents a twofold contribution. The first part offers a mix of large-scale typological surveys and in-depth investigation of the evolution of negation in individual languages and language families that have not frequently been studied from this point of view, such as Chinese, Berber, Quechua, and Austronesian languages. The second part centers on French, a language whose early stages are comparatively richly documented and which therefore provides an important test case for hypotheses about the diachrony of negative marking. Representing, moreover, a variety of theoretical approaches, the volume will be of interest to researchers on negation, language change, and typology.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
+ index
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-5925-7 (9789027259257)
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Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen | Jacqueline Visconti
The Diachrony of Negation
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10/2014
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The University of Manchester
University of Genoa
Content
1. The diachrony of negation: Introduction (by Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt); 2. On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord (by Alsenoy, Lauren Van); 3. The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian (by Vossen, Frens); 4. The development of standard negation in Quechua: A reconstruction (by Pineda-Bernuy, Edith); 5. Taiwanese Southern Min V2 negation: A historical perspective (by Yang, Hui-Ling); 6. Berber negation in diachrony (by Brugnatelli, Vermondo); 7. The grammaticalization of negative indefinites: The case of the temporal/aspectual n-words plus and mais in Medieval French (by Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt); 8. Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450-1715 (by Ingham, Richard P.); 9. The continuity of the vernacular: The evolution of negative doubling in French (by Larrivee, Pierre); 10. Index