Corpus-provoked questions about negation in early Middle English

Language Sciences

Volumn 24, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 297-321

  Laing, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Jack's Law; Jespersen's cycle; LAEME; Negation, early Middle English, clausal, single, double, multiple; Negative exclusive construction ('ne...but')

Indexed keywords

EID: 22944483099     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0388-0001(01)00035-3     Document Type: Article

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