Is there a Jespersen cycle?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Is there a Jespersen cycle? 1
4. Negative words and related expressions: A new perspective on some familiar puzzles 23
5. Negative words and negation in French 61
6. Secondary negation and information structure organisation in the history of English 77
7. Looking high and low for NegP in early English 115
8. Ne-drop and indefinites in Anglo-Norman and Middle English 145
9. Looking at Middle English through the mirror of Anglo-Norman 165
10. Ne-absence in declarative and yes/no interrogative contexts: Some patterns of change 179
11. The early absence of the French negative marker ne 209
12. Atoms of negation: An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord 221
13. Viviane Déprez: ‘‘Atoms of negation. An outside-in micro-parametric approach to negative concord.’’ Discussion 273
14. Negative polarity and the quantifier cycle: Comparative diachronic perspectives from European languages 285
15. Indefinite pronouns, synchrony and diachrony: Comments on Willis 325
16. Subject index 347
17. Language index 349