Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgement vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. List of abbreviations xi
6. Introduction 1
7. I. Aspects of Negation in the History of English
8. Negative Constructions in Old English 15
9. Variable Features of Negative Elements in Old English Psalter Glosses 27
10. On Grammaticalization of Negative Adverbs, with Special Reference to Jespersen’s Cycle Recast 39
11. “I not say” Once Again 59
12. Decline of Multiple Negation Revisited 83
13. A History of the Negative Interrogative do in Seveteenth- to Nineteenth-Century Diaries and Correspondance 93
14. II. Aspects of Negation in Present-day English
15. Negative Concord in British English Dialects 113
16. No, nay, never 139
17. A Corpus-based Study of the haven’t NP Pattern in American English 159
18. Negation in African American Vernacular English 173
19. Subjective Meanings of Except- linkage in Present-day English in Comparison with Including 205
20. Name Index 229
21. Subject Index 233