The Negative Existential Cycle
In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for negation markers and gave his hypothesis the name Negative Existential Cycle (NEC). It is a variationist model based on cross-linguistic data. For a...
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| Language: | English |
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Language Science Press
2023
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| Online Access: | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60602 |
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