Jespersen's cycle
Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word Jespersen's cycle. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word Jespersen's cycle, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say Jespersen's cycle in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word Jespersen's cycle you have here. The definition of the word Jespersen's cycle will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofJespersen's cycle, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
English
Etymology
Described in 1917 by linguist Otto Jespersen, and named after him in Swedish linguist Östen Dahl's 1979 article Typology of Sentence Negation.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
- (linguistics) A process in historical linguistics by which negation is expressed first by a simple preverbal marker, then by a discontinuous marker (with elements both before and after the verb, as in the French ne ... pas) and in some cases through subsequent loss of the original preverbal marker, and so on.