The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective

This volume offers the most comprehensive and wide-ranging treatment available today of the Uralic language family, a group of languages spoken in northern Eura

Expressing negation is a universal property of all human languages. There is considerable variation, however, in the exact ways negation materializes cross-ling

This is the first of a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It examines the development of sentential ne

In 1991, William Croft suggested that negative existentials (typically lexical expressions that mean ‘not exist, not have’) are one possible source for nega