This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI)
and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It …

Cyclical language change is a linguistic process by which a word, phrase, or part of the
grammar loses its meaning or function and is then replaced by another. This can even …

The purpose of this paper is to present a reconceptualisation of the central grammatical
change that is the Jespersen cycle. The evolution of the grammar of negation is proposed to …

In the synchronic and diachronic typology of negation three so-called “cycles” have been
prominent: the Jespersen Cycle, the Negative Existential Cycle and the Quantifier Cycle …

Because there has been a recent surge of interest in the linguistic cycle, this article presents
a survey of cyclical change and shows how that change provides a unique perspective on …

El español actual, como es sabido, posee dos construcciones para la negación con
elementos como los indefinidos nada, nadie, ninguno y ningún+ SN. En la más frecuente, el …

The received view on the distribution of polarity items is that positive polarity items (PPIs)
such as something are found in positive contexts; they are anti-licensed by negative …

In this pioneering study, a world-renowned generative syntactician explores the impact of
phenomena known as' third factors' on syntactic change. Generative syntax has in recent …

This work presents an exploratory data analysis of the syntactic distribution of pre-and
postverbal negation (N1 and N2) in a corpus of data gathered from two linguistic atlases, the …

Chomsky's latest linguistic work has problematized projection and labeling. With the earlier
Phrase Structure Grammar and X'‐bar theory, it is taken for granted that a phrase contains a …