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

Negation is one of the main functions in human communication.A History of English Negation is the first book to analyse English negation over the whole of its d

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

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