“…The developments that we noted, more or less appropriable to convergence, by no means simplified the whole but rather caused a multiplication of forms and rules. Negation is one of the most studied morphosyntactic areas in both Berber languages and Maghrebi Arabic (Galand, 1994;Chaker & Caubet, 1996;Mettouchi, 1996Mettouchi, , 2009Lucas, 2007Lucas, , 2013Lafkioui & Brugnatelli, 2017, 2020, and it has often been discussed in relation to Berber-Arabic convergence (Brugnatelli, 2014;Lafkioui & Brugnatelli, 2020;Kahlouche, 2000;Mettouchi, 2012;Lucas, 2007Lucas, , 2009Lucas, , 2013Lucas, , 2017Souag, 2018). In this article, convergence is understood as a trans-linguistic change characterized by approximation between structures of different linguistic systems.…”