Elly van Gelderen provides examples of linguistic cycles from a number of languages and
language families, along with an account of the linguistic cycle in terms of minimalist …

This monograph is the first book-length study on Old High German syntax from a generative
perspective in twenty years. It provides an in-depth exploration of the Old High German pre …

The possibility of expressing negation is a very basic property of human language. All
natural languages possess it. However, there is a certain amount of variation in the linguistic …

Crosslinguistically, negatives change in a cyclical fashion. A particular negative weakens
and is renewed by another element. In this article, I provide examples of two distinct …

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 thesis discusses diachronic developments in the expression of negation in Arabic and
other Afro-Asiatic languages, focussing in particular on the set of changes known as …

This article discusses similar developments in the expression of negation in the histories of
Egyptian-Coptic and Arabic and explores the evidence for these respective developments …

Recent work has cast doubt on the idea that all languages are equally complex; however,
the notion of syntactic complexity remains underexplored. Taking complexity to equate to …

This dissertation discusses aspects of the syntax of Övdalian, a variety spoken by ca. 2,500
people in the province of Dalecarlia in Sweden. Initially, an overview of the history and …

It is argued that the structure of the sentence in English as well as Finnish is C [Pol [T...]],
where Pol (arity) has negative or affirmative value. Yes/no questions are derived …