This article reviews some of the principal patterns of morphosyntactic variation within Daco-
Romanian and across Daco-Romance in support of a distinction between low vs high V …

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 …

This book presents a novel overarching account of negation and negative dependencies,
based on novel data from language variation, language acquisition, and language change …

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 …

Cyclical change continued Cyclical Change Continued Edited by Elly van Gelderen John
Benjamins Publishing Company Linguistik Aktuell Linguistics Today 227 Page 2 Cyclical …

This paper starts from the premise that there is something special about v in southern
Romance, proposing a principled explanation for the respective absence and presence of …

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 …

Die vorliegende Untersuchung zu Imitationen des Jiddischen in der deutschsprachigen
Literatur entstand zwischen 2012 und 2014 als Dissertationsschrift an der Philipps …

This study looks for evidence for the Jespersen Cycle, which is typically the development
from one single negator to another one via a strengthening stage in which both are present …