Autors:
Espinal, M. Teresa & Tubau, SusagnaTítol:
Negation: diachronic developments.Editorial: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Col·lecció: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Diachronic and Historical Linguistics
Data de publicació: 2026
Més informació
Edited by Adam Ledgeway, Edith Aldridge, Anne Breitbarth, Katalin É Kiss, Joseph Salmons and Alexandra Simonenko. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This chapter focuses on some relevant diachronic processes that involve sentential negation and on the most relevant diachronic developments that characterize negation in natural languages. We provide linguistic evidence showing that negative markers are involved in upward movements of negative expressions from an inside position within the sentential structure to its left-periphery; alternatively, they are base-generated in an outside position. Argumental negation is expressed by lexical items that are involved in several diachronic processes: from non-negative concord (NC) to NC, and vice versa, from non-strict NC to strict NC, and vice versa, as well as the possibility of displaying negative spread and double negation readings.
