Frustration, culmination, and inertia in Kimaragang grammar

Kroeger, Paul R.

doi:10.5334/gjgl.146

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“…That is, the inherent endpoint of the action referred to by a potentive telic predicate is actually reached, whereas dynamic predicates also allow for non-culminating interpretations. 18 This property of potentives has been observed by Dell (1983) for Tagalog, by Kroeger (2017) for Kimaragang and by Paul et al (2020) for Malagasy. 19 It is also found in Totoli, as demonstrated by the following example pair.…”

Section: The Evidence From Event Culminationmentioning

confidence: 72%

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Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above?

Farré¹,

Riesberg²,

Himmelmann³

2022

Oceanic Linguistics

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In many western Austronesian languages, the fact that an agentive argument lacks full control is morphologically marked on the verb. The formatives used for this purpose are often also found on stative predicates, and it has been suggested that limited-control predicates are stative-like in that they denote the result state of a given eventuality. Here we argue that limited-control predicates differ from both stative and dynamic predicates, and constitute a category of their own. Limited-control marking primarily pertains to agentivity and not to aspectual structure, and, importantly, is only used when control is at issue. With respect to the frequent overlaps with stative morphology, we argue that historically speaking, limited-control and stative marking have a common origin. While the current investigation does not include a full account of the historical developments leading to two synchronically separate categories (stative and limited-control), we provide evidence for the hypothesis that perception predicates had a major role to play in this development.(2) a. Ni-taip inang=ku taipang.RLS.UV-slice mother=1SG.GEN mango 'My mother sliced the mango.' b. Nikataipan inangku taipang. ni-ko-taip-an inang=ku taipang RLS.UV-POT-slice-UV2 mother=1SG.GEN mango 'My mother accidentally sliced the mango.'The major point of interest here is the fact that limited-control predicates as in (2)b overlap in their morphological marking with stative predicates. Thus, in (1)b the stative predicate is marked by the affix combination ni-ko--an, which is also found on the limited-control predicate in (2)b. As we will further illustrate in section 2, the degree to which stative and limited-control predicates morphologically overlap varies significantly across western Austronesian languages, ranging from almost total separation to total overlap.In cases where limited-control predicates differ morphologically from stative predicates, they are referred to by a wide range of terms in the Austronesianist literature, including accidental, involuntary, non-volitional, non-volitive, abilitative, potential, ability and involuntary action verbs, etc. Here we use the term potentive, following Rubino (1997) andHimmelmann (2004). In cases of total overlap, it is common practice not to distinguish between stative and limited-control predicates. Instead, the relevant forms are simply labelled stative and then different uses of these forms are distinguished. Kroeger (1990), for example, mentions 'possibility', 'attempted action', and 'non-volitional actions' among the uses of the stative affixes in Kimaragang (Sabah, Malaysia).

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Section: The Evidence From Event Culminationmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…15 Cp. Kroeger (2017) for an instructive study of frustratives in Kimaragang, which, importantly, do not involve potentive or stative marking. 16 Their list of uncontrolled situations also includes "events which are natural, spontaneous -happening without the intervention of any agent" (Thompson & Thompson 1992:51).…”

Section: Volition Intention or Control?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above?

Farré¹,

Riesberg²,

Himmelmann³

2022

Oceanic Linguistics

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“…That some frustratives occur in the consequent of counterfactual conditionals has been observed for a number of languages (Copley 2005 As far as I know, no formal analysis of the occurrence of the frustrative in conditional environments has been offered in the Mapudungun literature (regardless of how the suffix is categorized). Kroeger (2017) offers a modal Kratzerian analysis of counterfactual uses of Kimaragang dara, which I will examine in section 3.2. For the distribution of -fu-and future marker -a-in conditional environments, see discussion in section 4.1.…”

Section: The Counterfactual Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mapudungun frustrative -fu-: a modal analysis

Fuentes

2023

Can. J. Linguist.

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In Mapudungun, the suffix -fu- typically indicates the unsuccessful realization of either an event or its expected consequences. As is the case for frustrative morphemes in several unrelated languages, when applied to a stative VP, the interpretation tends to be linked to non-continuation. Interestingly, in addition to these core readings, -fu- also occurs in conditionals conveying counterfactuality, and in a large subclass of deontic and bouletic constructions, such as the ones that express weak necessity and unattainable desires. Following recent developments in the study of both frustratives and conditionals, this article shows how a modal analysis of -fu- can integrate these different readings into a unified account.

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“…As a matter of fact, the remainder of the text specifies that she is refusing to make way for another person to go where he's heading to. Going back to the avant que clause, it involves a (desirable) situation that the agent of the main clause expects not to happen (an 'unrealized goal', see Kroeger 2017;Overall 2017). The expected non-actualization of the avant que clause represents the personal motivation (see also Verstraete 2008) for the agent's decision to undertake the coercitive action described by the main clause.…”

Section: The Frustrative Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Apprehensive and frustrative uses of before

Tahar

2021

SALT

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In this paper, I look at how context-dependent inferences can enrich the meaning of non-factual before (‘avant que’) clauses in French. My proposal is that, in a sentence like ‘before p, q’, the connective may receive two pragmatically enriched readings: (i) an apprehensive reading, when the agent responsible for q has the goal of avoiding p (after Anderbois & Dabkowski (2020)); (ii) a frustrative reading, when it is contrary to the expectations of the agent responsible for q that p. Going further, I address the question of expletive negation in avant que clauses, arguing that expletive negation puts emphasis on the connective’s invited inferences of negative (teleological or doxastic) preference. Finally, I generalize the account to other contexts where expletive negation occurs in French.

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Frustration, culmination, and inertia in Kimaragang grammar

Cited by 7 publications

References 8 publications

Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above?

Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above?

Mapudungun frustrative -fu-: a modal analysis

Apprehensive and frustrative uses of before

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