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Why do languages around the world seem to "double up" on negation? In French, you say "ne" and "pas" to negate a verb—but this isn't just a quirk of French. Double negation strategies appear across the globe: from Nordic tongues to Navajo, from Afrikaans to Arabic. So why is this pattern so common, and how do these negation structures develop in the first place?

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Introduction
00:48 - Jespersen's Cycle
02:38 - The Weakness Hypothesis
06:58 - The Emphatic Hypothesis
11:05 - Combined Approach
17:30 - Complications
19:38 - Outro