Unsupported Negative Ne in Later Middle English
- Author / Editor
- Iyeiri, Yoko.
Unsupported Negative Ne in Later Middle English
- Published
- N&Q 253 (2008): 21-23.
- Description
- Analysis of Bo, Mel, and ParsT reveals that preverbal "ne" unsupported by a postverbal "not" appears most often with "forms of be, will, and witen"; moreover, this construction is more likely to appear in subordinate clauses than in main clauses.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies