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Title The history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume I, Case studies / edited by David Willis, Christopher Lucas, Anne Breitbarth
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Series Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 5
Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; 5.
Contents Comparing Diachronies of Negation, David Willis, Chris Lucas, and Anne Breitbarth -- Negation in the History of French, Maj-Britt Modegaard hansen -- Negation in the History of Italo-Romance, Mair Parry -- Negation in the History of English, Richard Ingham -- Negation in the History of High German, Agnes Jager -- Negation in the History of Low German and Dutch, Anne Breitbarth -- Negation in the History of the Brythonic Celtic Languages, David Willis -- Negation in the History of Greek, Jo Willmott -- Negation in the History of the Slavonic Languages, David Willis -- Negation in the History of Arabic and Afro-Asiatic, Christopher Lucas -- Negation in the History of the Mordvin Languages, Arja Hamari
Summary This is the first volume of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It integrates typological, general, and theoretical research documents patterns and directions of change in negation across languages, and examines the linguistic and social factors that lie behind such changes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 486-523) and indexes
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Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives.
Negation (Logic)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives
Language and languages
Negation (Logic)
SUBJECT Europe -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045732
Mediterranean Region -- Languages. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2021009685
Subject Europe
Mediterranean Region
Form Electronic book
Author Willis, David W. E., editor
Lucas, Christopher, editor
Breitbarth, Anne, 1976- editor.
ISBN 9780191667978
0191667978