This dissertation develops a unified syntax for negation. More particularly, it proposes a
unified account for the differences and similarities between 'sentence negation', as in …

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 …

Old English* motan and Middle English* moten, the ancestors of modern must, are
commonly described as ambiguous between a possibility and a necessity reading. I argue …

The main part of this dissertation consists of four loosely connected chapters on the
semantics of modals. The chapters inform each other and employ similar methods, but …

In this paper I will propose a distinction between syntactic and semantic sentential negation.
I will motivate the distinction by discussing some core properties of three downward entailing …

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 …

This paper investigates the scope interaction between modality and negation in Turkish. We
observe that modals display a complex picture of scope interaction with negation: both …

This thesis deals with the diachronic renewal of standard negation, a phenomenon
commonly known as Jespersen's cycle (also JC in this thesis). We adopt the notion of …

In den vergangenen Jahren hat sich die Erforschung dialektaler Syntax zu einem besonders
innovativen und vielfältigen Bereich entwickelt, nachdem entsprechende Fragestellungen …

In this paper I will propose a distinction between syntactic and semantic sentential negation.
I will motivate the distinction by discussing some core properties of three downward entailing …