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The evolution of negation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

William Croft
William Croft
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Program in Linguistics, 1076 Frieze Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1285. USA
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Recently, linguists have discovered (or, more accurately, rediscovered) the role that historical linguistics can legitimately play in providing explanations for the facts of synchronic language types. Greater awareness of synchronic variability and its source in historical changes in progress has focused attention on the concept of a language as a system not of static structures, but of interacting processes which the individual speaker becomes involved in as he/she acquires the language and enters the language community (Weinreich, Labov & Herzog, 1968). These processes are hypothesized to be universal, in that they may occur in any language family at any time period (though the initial actuation of a change is still a riddle, ibid. 102).

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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 27 , Issue 1 , March 1991, pp. 1 - 27
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