Negation in Early English: Grammatical and Functional Change
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 23563878
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781107114296
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This monograph represents the culmination of over ten years of detailed empirical research. Analysing five superficially distinct changes to negation over the period 800-1700CE from syntactic, variationist and pragmatic perspectives, statistical models demonstrate how these superficially distinct changes are all manifestations of a single underlying abstract grammatical change. These conceptual and methodological insights result from highly detailed modelling and quantitative analysis of four very large-scale datasets (over 7 million words). The resulting work is methodologically innovative, an exemplar showing how cutting-edge statistical models produce new insights into mechanisms of language change.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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