Agnes Jäger

List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnes Jäger is involved.

Title

History of German Negation

Agnes Jäger

This book represents the first comprehensive overview over the history of negation in German. It addresses both the development of the negation particles as well as the diachrony of indefinites in the scope of negation and the phenomenon of Negative Concord. Being based on a corpus study of several… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 118] 2008. ix, 350 pp.

Articles

Jäger, Agnes and Doris Penka 2012 Development of sentential negation in the history of German Comparative Germanic Syntax: The state of the art, Ackema, Peter, Rhona Alcorn, Caroline Heycock, Dany Jaspers, Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Guido Vanden Wyngaerd (eds.), pp. 199–222 | Article

This paper proposes an analysis of the diachrony of negation in German. We suggest that despite the changes in the negation particle and the availability of negative concord (NC), there is a large amount of diachronic continuity both with respect to the syntax of negation in terms of NegP as well… read more

Jäger, Agnes 2007 'No' changes: On the history of German indefinite determiners in the scope of negation Nominal Determination: Typology, context constraints, and historical emergence, Stark, Elisabeth, Elisabeth Leiss and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 141–170 | Article

This paper investigates the evolution of nominal determination of a specific kind, viz. indefinite determination in the scope of negation. Four basic syntactic patterns of indefi nite nominal determination in the scope of negation are distinguished. The changes within the system of indefi nite… read more