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In this paper I discuss the creative rendezvous of necrotizing habituation with the speakers’ reviving – if not artful – imagination in negative responses. Ιn particular, I reconsider the so-called  kanenas - [ κανένας -] series in Modern Greek as a byproduct of a discourse strategy involving the logical sequence of modus tollens. I argue that the intensifier  kan  [ κάν  &lt; ancient  κἄν ] ‘even (if)’ is the diachronic manifestation of a prevalent speaker’s tactic intended for making the perception of a denial long and “laborious” by estranging and complicating the negative structure. And that when this autonomous  kan  comes to be processed as a single unit with the emphatic cardinal  enas  [ ένας  &lt; ancient  εἷς ] ‘one’, it opens a fertile grammaticalization cycle. More specifically, as the contexts in which the resultant minimizer  kanenas  [emphatic] is welcome proliferate, the frequency of use of this fashionable Negative Polarity Item increases dramatically, resulting in a gradual loss in semantic specificity and phonological flesh:  kanenas  [non emphatic],  kanas . The unavoidable price for that proliferation, which is, however, ultimately balanced by an impressive earnings yield in positive polarity items:  kapjos  [κάποιος] ‘some(one)’,  kati  [κάτι] ‘some(thing)’,  kapu  [κάπου] ‘somewhere’ etc.

How languages acquire new grammatical elements: The story of ka(n) - series in Modern Greek retold