Ambiguous Negations in Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth.
- Author / Editor
- Baghdikian, Sonia.
Ambiguous Negations in Chaucer and Queen Elizabeth.
- Published
- In Graham Nixon and John Honey, eds. An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang (New York: Routledge, 1988), pp. 41-48.
- Description
- Draws examples from Bo and Elizabeth I’s translation of Boethius ("noght," "nowt," "nothing,” etc.) to show that the ambiguity of morphological negation disappears between Middle and Early Modern English while that of syntactical negation survives.
- Contributor
- Nixon, Graham, ed.
Honey, John ed.
- Alternative Title
- An Historic Tongue: Studies in English Linguistics in Memory of Barbara Strang.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Language and Word Studies
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