The diachrony of negation /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Description:1 online resource.
Language:English
Series:Studies in language companion series, 0165-7763 ; v. 160
Studies in language companion series ; v. 160.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11236683
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Other authors / contributors:Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt, editor.
Visconti, Jacqueline, 1966- editor.
ISBN:9789027269881
9027269882
9789027259257
9027259259
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Diachrony of negation 9789027259257