This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies,
based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change …

Jordanian Arabic (JA) has two main patterns for verbal negation, ie, preverbal negation
(ma:….) and discontinuous negation (ma:….-ʃ). This article provides a variationist account …

In this paper, we revisit the phenomenon of Negative Concord focusing on the Strict vs. Non-
Strict divide. With Catalan as a case in point, we show that Negative Concord Items (NCIs) …

In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen's Cycle
(JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite …

This paper explores the interaction between connective negation ('neither... nor') and
negative concord, an issue that has not received much attention. It looks at different …

Double and triple negation marking is an ancient and deep-rooted feature that is attested in
almost the entire Berber-speaking area (North Africa and diaspora), regardless of the type of …

The paper sketches the state of affairs of our understanding of postverbal negation. It
departs from the typological finding that there is a cross-linguistic preference for a negator to …

In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks
why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard …

This study compares standard negation in the indigenous languages of South America to
the rest of the world. We show that South American languages not only prefer postverbal …

Los estudios realizados sobre la variedad de castellano hablado por bilingües
mapudungun-castellano han reportado una serie de rasgos que la diferencian del …