Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Contents V
3. Abbreviations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Five ways of saying no: the development of sentential negation in English in a Government and Binding perspective 9
6. English negation from an interactional perspective 29
7. On Negative Raising in the history of English 55
8. Negative Concord and Verb Projection Raising in Old English and West Flemish 101
9. Multiple negation in Middle English verse 121
10. Sentential negation and clause structure in Old English 147
11. The facts and nothing but: the (non-)grammaticalisation of negative exclusives in English 167
12. Isn't it? or is it not? On the order of postverbal subject and negative particle in the history of English 189
13. The origin and development of the "Neg ... neither" construction: a case of grammaticalisation 207
14. Affixal and non-affixal negation - a case of stable variation over time? 233
15. On the scope of Negative Concord 269
16. On expletive negation with adversative predicates in the history of English 295
17. Index 329
18. 335-336 335