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      Jespersen cycles on Malekula

      Barbour, Julie Renee
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       10.1515/lingty-2015-0013
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      Barbour, J. R. (2015). Jespersen cycles on Malekula. Linguistic Typology, 19(3), 425–462. https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2015-0013
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12692
      Abstract
      In the indigenous languages of Malekula Island, members of Oceanic, diverse standard negation strategies have been identified, including double negation, simple preverbal negators, and simple postverbal negators. Individual languages may display more than one strategy. In this article, evidence from Malekula is considered for the typological hypothesis known as the Jespersen Cycle(s). Six standard negation strategies are described in detail and illustrated using data from a sample of Malekula languages. Here, the Jespersen Cycle hypothesis is employed to understand diversity in the synchronic patterning of standard negation in a comparative analysis of the sample: the diverse standard negation strategies found both language-internally and comparatively can be understood as iterations of the Jespersen Cycle(s).
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      2015
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      Journal Article
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      De Gruyter Mouton
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      © 2015 De Gruyter.
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