Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. The diachrony of negation 1
4. On the relation between double clausal negation and negative concord 13
5. The Jespersen cycles seen from Austronesian 47
6. The development of standard negation in Quechua 83
7. Taiwanese Southern Min V2 negation 131
8. Berber negation in diachrony 167
9. The grammaticalization of negative indefinites 185
10. Evidence from a correspondence corpus for diachronic change in French indefinites 1450–1715 213
11. The continuity of the vernacular 235
12. Index 257