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Jespersen's cycle: a standalone construct

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Historical linguistics

recurring pattern in which a negator weakens, is reinforced by another element, and the reinforcer then becomes the new negator.

In historical linguistics, Jespersen's cycle refers to recurring pattern in which a negator weakens, is reinforced by another element, and the reinforcer then becomes the new negator. This meaning comes from Dahl (1979) in Linguistics.[1]

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References

Dahl, Ö. (1979). Typology of sentence negation. Linguistics, 17(1-2). https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1979.17.1-2.79

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