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Other authors / contributors: | Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt, editor.
Visconti, Jacqueline, 1966- editor.
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ISBN: | 9789027269881 9027269882 9789027259257 9027259259
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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Summary: | 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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Other form: | Print version: Diachrony of negation 9789027259257
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