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Publication details [#30878]

Ingham, Richard. 2002. Negated subjects and objects in 15th-century nonliterary English. Language Variation and Change 14 : 291–322.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

familiarity | historical linguistics | letter | noun phrase

Language as a subject

English, Middle

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper employs a large database of 15th-century English familial correspondence, to demonstrate that noun phrase positions in late Middle English were essentially those of Present-Day English.