Negation in Non-Standard British English
Subtitle: Gaps, Regularizations and Asymmetrics
Series: Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics; Routledge studies in Germanic linguistics
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9780203167502
Subjects: Negatives; English language
Description: 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: 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.