The Negative Existential Cycle
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The Negative Existential Cycle

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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 good twenty years following its formulation, it was cited at face-value without ever having been tested by (historical)-comparative data. Over the last decade, Ljuba Veselinova has worked on testing the model in a comparative perspective, and this edited volume further expands on her work. The co...