Negative concord (NC) is used in many English varieties but usually considered
ungrammatical in 'standard'contemporary English, where negative polarity items (NPIs) are …

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 …

This paper aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord (as in English
We don't need no education) and connective negation (as in English neither… nor') through …

In this article we bring to light one additional factor underlying so-called Jespersen's Cycle
(JC) in Romance which has to date gone unnoticed, namely the varying position of the finite …

This article aims to better understand how Negative Polarity Items (NPIs) come into
existence and how they change over time. It argues that an expression can become an NPI if …

In this paper we report the results of an exploratory experiment aiming to examine the
division of labour between syntax, phonology, and information structure in linguistic change …

This paper is concerned with the word order of particle constructions in the history of
Swedish. Unlike the other Germanic languages, present-day Swedish only allows the order …

This chapter presents an overview of developments in the expression of negation in Arabic
and a number of its contact languages, focusing on clausal negation, with some remarks …

This paper deals with the Italian presuppositional negation marker mica. This particle can
surface differently in the negative circuit eg either in a clause-initial or a clause-internal …

The article aims to advance the general understanding of negative concord through a
comparative analysis of nominal and pronominal negative concord in Jamaican and …