Analysis identifies de ne as a negative question marker in Old French, suggesting insights into linguistic constructs.
In the Conquête de Constantinople of Robert de Clary there occurs twice the expression de ne, used to introduce a negative question. The editor, M. Philippe Lauer, writes it as two words, probably considering it the preposition de plus the negative particle.
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Urban T. Holmes (1926) studied this question.
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