DOAJ
Open Access
2020
On the (non)-expletive uses of the preverbal negative ne/en in the history of (Low) German and Dutch
Elisabeth Witzenhausen
Abstrak
This article presents novel data from Middle High German, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch showing that two phenomena which often have been treated as one, namely the single former negative marker ne/en appearing in adverbial and complement clauses, have to be treated as distinct phenomena. I argue that only in complement clauses, ne/en is a paratactic negation marker, while in adverbial clauses it functions as an exceptive and adversative discourse marker. In these contexts, I refer to ne/en as post-cyclical Furthermore, I propose a scenario as to how the reanalysis from negation to exceptive marker proceeded.
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Elisabeth Witzenhausen
Akses Cepat
Informasi Jurnal
- Tahun Terbit
- 2020
- Sumber Database
- DOAJ
- DOI
- 10.7557/12.5281
- Akses
- Open Access ✓