"Jespersen's cycle" meaning in English

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        "(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."
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