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Jespersen's Cycle (JC) is a series of processes in historical linguistics, which describe the historical development of the expression of negation in a variety of languages, from a simple pre-verbal marker of negation, through a discontinuous marker (elements both before and after the verb) and in some cases through subsequent loss of the original pre-verbal marker. The term originated in the 1979 publication ''Typology of Sentence Negation'' by Swedish linguist Östen Dahl. Dahl coined it in recognition of the pioneering work of Otto Jespersen in identifying this pattern of language change . ==Introduction== The linguist Otto Jespersen began his book ''Negation in English and Other Languages''〔 with the words: The process has since been described for many languages in many different families, and is particularly noticeable in languages which are currently at stage II (both the original and the additional word obligatory) such as French, Welsh, and some dialects of Arabic and Berber. The fact that different languages can be seen to be in different stages of the process, and that sometimes, as Jespersen says, the whole process can begin again after renewal, prompted Dahl to name the process "Jespersen's cycle". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jespersen's Cycle」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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