This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old
Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the …

This book applies the tools of nanosyntax to the natural language phenomenon of negation.
Most work on negation is concerned with the study of sentence negation, while low scope …

In this paper we report the results of an exploratory experiment aiming to examine the
division of labour between syntax, phonology, and information structure in linguistic change …

Negation in Romance offers a wide array of cross-linguistic variation. For what concerns
sentential negation, three main strategies are employed depending on the position of the …

This paper offers a formal account of the diachronic changes in the interaction between
indefinites in the scope of negation and the expression of sentential negation in the history …

This article investigates the pragmatic function of new negative markers during incipient
renewal of negation in 'Jespersen's cycle'. We outline a typology of these markers …

This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive
case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the …

This paper presents a nanosyntactic account for negation in le bon usage French (Grevisse
& Goosse [1936] 1993, Rooryck 2010) and in colloquial French. The analysis captures the …

The Tanzanian Bantu languages Rangi and Mbugwe both employ a double negation
marking strategy. In Rangi, verbal negation is achieved through the presence of a pre-verbal …

The present paper adds empirical evidence to the observation that dialect contact can lead
to language change, and in particular, structural simplification. Empirically, the paper maps …