Negation in non-standard British English : gaps, regularizations, and asymmetries

Anderwald, Lieselotte 1969- (Author).

Summary: Based on the British National Corpus, this book investigates a range of morphosyntactic features of negation that can be found in everyday spoken language and provides the first thorough empirical study of the field of non-standard negation.

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ISBN: 9780203167502
ISBN: 0203167503
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 232 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:january.19
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Preliminaries; Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Negation in standard; 3 Regional variation; 4 Filling the gaps?; 5 Negative concord; 6 AIN'T; 7 Third person singular don't; 8 Past tense BE; 9 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.