This condensed review of recent trends and developments in historical linguistics proceeds
from the empirical to the conceptual, from 'what'to 'how'to 'why'. I begin with new findings …

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 …

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 …

This article re-examines the evidence for OV and VO variation and the loss of OV order in
historical English, and presents a novel and unified analysis of Old and Middle English word …

The West-Germanic language family is characterized by a remarkable variation in word
order. The continental varieties, including Dutch and German, have largely Object-Verb (OV) …

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 …

This special issue of LINGUA assembles five selected papers presented at the conference
“Negation and Clitics in Romance”(University of Zurich, February 24th and 25th 2012) which …

The present study shows that Wisconsin Heritage German licenses complementizer
agreement for second person singular, with inflectional affixes developed through the …

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 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 …