On the Diachronic Status of the Core Negative Element ne and not in English Negation

• 발행기관: 현대문법학회
• 저자명: Sangsoo Park
• 간행물 정보: 『현대문법연구』제62호, 21~40쪽, 전체 20쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
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• 발행일자: 2010.12.01

영문 초록

The aim of this paper is to analyze the grammatical status of English core negative element ne and not in the process of diachronic changes. Negation was generally expressed by the negative particle ne throughout OE. It came to be expressed by the weakened ne in combination with the negative adverb not in ME, and as ne disappeared, not started to be used exclusively from around the fifteenth century. There was a temporary tendency to place not before a lexical verb until the verb do became fully grammaticalized as an auxiliary, but negation began to be derived with the syntactic structure of a finite modal verb/do＋not＋a lexical verb from the later period of Early ModE. Contracted negation came to be optionally expressed through negative contraction in terms of encliticization of not to the preceding finite verb from Late ModE.

목차

1. Introduction

2. Some Mechanisms for Negative Sentence

3. Negation in OE and Early ME

4. Negation in Late ME and Early ModE

5. Negation in Late ModE

6. Concluding Remarks

키워드

contracted negation do-support encliticization negation negative criterion negative cycle negative adverb not negative particle ne