This paper provides a typological overview of expletive negation based on a survey of 722
languages, focusing in detail on a smaller sample of five languages. Expletive negation (EN) …

This chapter analyzes the kind of renewal of clausal negators referred to with the term of
'Jespersen Cycle'. It describes how a negator may collocate with a strengthener, which may …

This book provides a thorough investigation of the expression of sentential negation in the
history of Greek. It draws on both quantitative data from texts dating from three major stages …

The purpose of this article is to delimit the role of pragmatic specialisation in the evolution of
negation in French. The change in the marking of sentential negation is believed to proceed …

In this paper, we show that the syntactic analysis of one major type of NEG raising in Collins
& Postal (2014) is inconsistent with the facts of negation scope revealed by Klima (1964) …

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 …

While the traditional Square of Opposition was based on Aristotle's logic, its first appearance
postdates the Stagyrite by five centuries. In the Prior Analytics I, Aristotle himself lays out a …

I give a new account of neg-raising with belief predicates as scaleless implicatures,
inferences that are predicted by grammatical theories of scalar implicatures, when a …

The purpose of this paper is to provide quantitative substantiation for the role of bridging
context in grammatical change. Bridging contexts are assumed to be environments …

In this paper, we present novel observations indicating that the syntax of clause negation in
French constrains how speakers perform a specific gestural form associated with negation …