Abstract The negative existential cycle has been shown to be operative in several language families. Here it is shown that it also operates within a single language. It happens that the existential fī that has been adduced as an example of a type A in the Arabic of Damascus, Syria, negated with the standard spoken Arabic verbal negator mā, does not participate in a negative cycle, but another Arabic existential particle does. Reflexes of the existential particle šay(y)/šē/šī/ši of southern peninsular Arabic dialects enter into a type A > B configuration as a univerbation between mā and the existential particle ši in reflexes of maši. It also enters that configuration in others as a univerbation between mā, the 3rd-person pronouns hū or hī, and the existential particle šī in reflexes of mahūš/mahīš. At that point, the existential particle šī loses its identity as such to be reanalyzed as a negator, with reflexes of mahūš/mahīš negating all manner of non-verbal predications except existentials. As such, negators formed of reflexes of šī skip a stage B, but they re-enter the cycle at stage B > C, when reflexes of mahūš/mahīš begin negating some verbs. The consecutive C stage is encountered only in northern Egyptian and southern Yemeni dialects. An inchoate stage C > A appears only in dialects of Lower Egypt.

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阿拉伯语的克罗夫特循环：单一语言的否定存在循环

摘要负存在循环已被证明在几种语言家族中都有效。此处显示它也以单一语言运行。碰巧，以叙利亚大马士革阿拉伯语中的A型为例，与标准口语阿拉伯语否定词mā否定的存在主义fī不参与否定循环，而另一个阿拉伯语存在主义粒子参与了这种消极循环。南部半岛阿拉伯方言的存在质词šay（y）/šē/šī/ši的反射在maši反射中进入a> B构型，作为mā与存在质词shi的唯一动词。它在其他形式中也作为马哈，第三人称代词“hū”或“hī”与存在性粒子“šī”之间的唯一动词进入该构型，以“mahūš/mahīš”的反射形式出现。在那时候，存在质语šī失去了其身份，因此被重新分析为否定词，而mahūš/mahīš的反射否定了存在语以外的所有非言语谓词。这样，由šī的反射形成的否定词会跳过阶段B，但是当mahūš/mahīš的反射开始使某些动词否定时，它们会在阶段B> C重新进入循环。仅在埃及北部和也门南部方言中遇到连续的C阶段。早期阶段C> A仅出现在下埃及方言中。仅在埃及北部和也门南部方言中遇到连续的C阶段。早期阶段C> A仅出现在下埃及的方言中。仅在埃及北部和也门南部方言中遇到连续的C阶段。早期阶段C> A仅出现在下埃及的方言中。