The diachrony of negation / edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, the University of Manchester ; Jacqueline Visconti, University of Genoa.

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The Diachrony of Negation; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; The diachrony of negation; 1. A resilient subject; 1.1 A note on terminology; 2. Summaries of the individual chapters; References; On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord; 1. Introduction; 2. Some obvious similarities and differences; 3. A typological relation?; 4. Negative concord as a prerequisite for Double Negation or Preverbal Negation; 5. Languages with both DN and NC; 5.1 Ewe and contamination; 5.2 Karok and negative absorption; 6. Languages with NC but no DN; 7. Conclusion; Abbreviations.

3.1 Types of interrogative-negative patterns3.2 Standard negation in Quechua; 3.3 Overview of negation patterns for sentential negation in the Quechua language family; 4. Variations in the standard negation in the Quechua language family; 4.1 Peripheral Quechua varieties; 4.1.1 Standard negation: Single negation with mana; 4.1.2 Non-standard sentential negation in Peripheral Quechua varieties.

4.1.2.3 Emphatic negation in sentences expressing prohibition, warnings, advice and requests. As an additional proof of the emphatic role of the suffix -chu, there are negative sentences showing shades of compelling requests or orders within contexts requ4.1.2.4 Negation and evidentiality. The negative sentence in Peripheral Quechua can present interaction between the negative mana and the clitics -chu and -mi.; 4.1.2.5 Summary of strategies in Peripheral Quechua. Negation patterns in ℗ƯPeripheral Quechua are illustrated in Table 4 below.

Labov's idea that the vernacular is the most stable variety of a language raises questions especially where languages of wider communication are concerned. Whether the vernacular practices of a language's geographical varieties are convergent synchronically and historically can be established by looking at particular variables. One such variable is investigated in this paper on the co-occurrence of a clausal negator with a n-word (e.g. I did n't do nothing , i.e. anything ). The quantitative study of negative doubling in Quebec and France historical and contemporary ve.

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