This volume traces the history of negation in English from Old and Middle English through to Modern Standard English and other varieties of English. It discusse

This book contains eleven carefully selected papers, all discussing negative constructions in English. The aim of this volume is to bring together empirical res

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This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential ne

Negation is at the core of human language; without negation there can be no denial, contradiction, irony, or lies. This book examines the form and function of n