The authors explore some of the ways in which standardization, ideology and linguistics are
interrelated. Through a number of case studies they show how concepts such as …

This paper has three main points. First, contrary to what is often stated, negative concord is
not all that frequent and certainly not the most frequent strategy to express single clausal …

In this paper, I discuss the phenomenon of cyclicity in semantic/pragmatic change (Hansen
2014), or cycles of pragmaticalization, as it has also been called (Ghezzi&Molinelli2014) …

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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 …

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 …

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 …

The contributions in this volume address, from various theoretical and methodological
perspectives, the interplay of grammatical structure and meaning through time. The …