LINGUIST List 23.326 Wed Jan 18 2012 Books: Historical Ling/Semantics/Syntax: Larrivée, Ingham (Eds) Editor for this issue: Danniella Hornby <daniellalinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.     Julia Ulrich , The Evolution of Negation: Larrivée, Ingham (Eds) Message 1: The Evolution of Negation: Larrivée, Ingham (Eds) Date: 18-Jan-2012 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: The Evolution of Negation: Larrivée, Ingham (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Evolution of Negation Subtitle: Beyond the Jespersen Cycle Series Title: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] 235 Published: 2011 Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton                 http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/174115?format=G Editor: Pierre Larrivée Editor: Richard Ingham Electronic: ISBN: 9783110238617 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Hardback: ISBN: 9783110238600 Pages: 350 Price: Europe EURO 99.95 Abstract: Why do grammars change? The cycle of negation proposed by Jespersen is crucially linked to the status of items and phrases. The definition of criteria establishing when a polarity item becomes a negative element, and the identification of the role of phrases for the evolution of negation are the two objectives pursued by the contributions to this volume. The contributions look at the emergence of negative items, and their relation within a given sentence, with particular reference to English and French. The comparative perspective supports the documentation of the fine-grained steps that shed light on the factors that (i) determine change and those that (ii) accompany actuation, which are considered through a dialogue between functionalist and formalist approaches. By looking at the place of negation in the architecture of the sentence, they take up the debate as to the relevance of phrasal projections and consider the role of features. Focusing on the make-up of individual items makes it possible to re-conceptualise the Jespersen cycle as the apparent result of the documented evolution patterns of individual (series of) items. This novel perspective is solidly grounded on an extensive use of the complete, up to date bibliography, and will contribute to shape future research. 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