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dc.contributor.authorLaperre, E
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-28T14:32:17Z
dc.date.issued20/09/2018
dc.identifier.urihttps://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/58261
dc.descriptionPhD thesisen_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the development of negation in historical West Flemish and Hollandic, focussing on resilient preverbal markers within a socio-historical framework. In doing so, my study provides a more detailed discussion of the resilient preverbal marker ne/en than previous accounts have done, as well as an explanation of why certain negative markers developed the way they did in the history of West Flemish and Hollandic. The analysis is based on an extensive, purpose-built corpus that comprises data from six centuries – from the thirteenth until the eighteenth – and two dialect regions. The dataset, which is examined using a fine-grained, century-by-century approach, thus provides diachronic breadth as well as a contrastive view of dialectal variation. In the literature, six contexts have been identified in which preverbal ne/en remains resilient: exceptives, expletives, with certain verbs, with certain adjectives or adverbs, fragment answers, and rhetorical questions. The results will be analysed on the level of morphosyntax as well as on a sociohistorical level. Firstly, my study will offer an in-depth diachronic overview of the grammaticalisation of exceptives, will analyse expletive preverbal markers as NPIs that undergo analogical change, and discuss the fossilisation of fragment answers. Secondly, I argue that urbanisation in the thirteenth to fifteenth, and the seventeenth centuries, may explain the West Flemish development of ne/en in the context of adverbs and adjectives, as well as the shift from bipartite to single niet and the loss of expletive markers in the Hollandic data. In addition, I will show that standardisation and prescriptivism can account for the attestation patterns in fifteenth-century Hollandic and eighteenth-century West Flemish. Overall, my research argues against ‘one size fits all’ explanations for the development of negation, and instead emphasises the need for a multi-faceted approach, proposing individual analyses tailored to each type of negative marker in the data.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipArts and Humanities Studentship awarded by Queen Mary University of London
dc.description.sponsorshipSchool of Language, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary University
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Philological Society of the UK
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherQueen Mary University of London
dc.subjectEconomics and Financeen_US
dc.subjecteconometric modelsen_US
dc.titleNegation in Historical West Flemish and Hollandic: an Investigation of Resilient Preverbal Markersen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.rights.holderThe copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author


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