Negative Existential Cycle / / edited by Ljuba Veselinova, Arja Hamari.
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 d...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : Language Science Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (670 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments iii
- 1 Introducing the Negative Existential Cycle
- I Africa and the Middle East2 The negative existential cycle in Bantu
- The negative existential cycle in ChadicMarielle Butters
- Extensions and commonalities in negative existential cycles in Arabic
- The negative existential cycle in Ancient Hebrew
- The negative existential cycle in Ancient Egyptian
- II Eurasia
- Negative existentials in Indo-European: A typological and diachronicoverview
- The negative existential cycle in Moksha Mordvin: From a negativeexistential into a negative auxiliary
- 9 Croft's Cycle in Mandarin and Cantonese throughout history andacross varieties
- Non-verbal negation markers and the Negative Existential Cycle inBashkir and Kalmyk with some typological parallels
- Integration of the negative existential into the standard negationsystem: The case of Nanaic languages
- III Other parts of the world12 Privation and Negation: Semantic change in the negative domains of three Australian (Pama-Nyungan) language groups.