Negation and indefinites in Late Latin

I investigate the interplay between sentential negation and indefinites in some Late Latin texts (since the III century CE), with the aim of tracing to this stage later developments affecting the early Romance varieties. I argue that the persistence of OV order with negative indefinites in Late Latin is a sign of an early restructuring in the system of sentential negation, preluding to the early Romance systems. I propose a parsimonious interpretation of this diachronic process in terms of one crucial change in the formal features of the negative marker nōn, with a number of significant consequences for the relation with the indefinite pronouns.