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Publication details [#64914]

Tagliamonte, Sali A., Heather Burnett and Hilda Koopman. 2018. Structural explanations in syntactic variation: The evolution of English negative and polarity indefinites. Language Variation and Change 30 (1) : 83–107.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

indefinite quantifier | language change | negation | polarity | quantification

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This article explores synchronic and diachronic variation patterns in the employment of postverbal negative quantifiers versus negative polarity items under negation in English.