Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.
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.
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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.
Negation in non-standard British English.
English language-- Negatives.
English language-- Variation-- Great Britain.
Dialecten.
Engels.
English language-- Negatives.
English language-- Negatives.
English language-- Variation-- Great Britain.
English language-- Variation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.