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Title: THE HISTORY OF LOW GERMAN NEGATION
By: Anne Breitbarth
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0199687285
ISBN 13: 9780199687282
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 25 September, 2014
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 13
Pages: 216
Description: This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon to Middle Low German. It is the first substantial diachronic analysis of these changes and looks at both the development of standard negation and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope.
Synopsis: This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle, and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites in its scope, giving rise to negative concord along the way. Anne Breitbarth shows that developments in Low German form a missing link between those in High German, English, and Dutch, which have been much more widely researched. These changes are analysed using a generative account of syntactic change combined with minimalist assumptions concerning the syntax of negation and negative concord. The book provides the first substantial, diachronic analysis of the development of the expression of negation through the Old Saxon and Middle Low German periods, and will be of interest not only to students and researchers in the history of German, but also to all those working on the syntax of negation from a diachronic and synchronic perspective.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
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