ISBN: 9781107114296 - negation in early english: grammatical and functional change (studies in english language) (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. This book presents an overview and analysis of negation in early English, using corpus data to track its development over time. Series: Studies in English Language. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: CFF; CFG; CFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. . . 2017. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 268 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Informed by detailed analysis of data from large-scale diachronic corpora, this book is a comprehensive account of changes to the expression of negation in English. Its methodological approach brings together up-to-date techniques from corpus linguistics and minimalist syntactic analysis to identify and characterise a series of interrelated changes affecting negation during the period 800-1700. Phillip Wallage uses cutting-edge statistical techniques and large-scale corpora to model changes in English negation over a period of nine hundred years. These models provide crucial empirical evidence which reveals the specific processes of syntactic and functional change affecting early English negation, and identifies diachronic relationships between these processes.…