‘To not be’ or not ‘to not be’

Eriksen, Pål Kristian

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“…This is reported to be less common typologically. Therefore, the direct similarity in the use of negation strategy across languages like Hamar clearly supports Eriksen's (2011) claim that the two sentence types should be analysed as subtypes of the same phenomenon. Examples are provided below:…”

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“…The focus of much of the typological literature on negation has been on standard negation, with little attention provided to non-standard negation from cross-linguistic perspectives (Eriksen 2011). In recent years, this seems to have changed slightly with significant contributions from Eriksen (2011) and Veselinova (2013) on the expression of nonverbal and existential sentences respectively. Eriksen (2011) proposes that even if nonverbal sentences often use non-standard means for expressing negation, they can still be analysed as an indirect way of expressing the same negation phenomenon in a language.…”

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“…In recent years, this seems to have changed slightly with significant contributions from Eriksen (2011) and Veselinova (2013) on the expression of nonverbal and existential sentences respectively. Eriksen (2011) proposes that even if nonverbal sentences often use non-standard means for expressing negation, they can still be analysed as an indirect way of expressing the same negation phenomenon in a language. In his own words, Eriksen (2011:304) writes that 'non-standard negation of nonverbal predicates may be analysed as various means to negate such predicates indirectly'.…”

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Negation in Hamar

Mendisu¹

2017

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This study deals with the negation of declarative and interrogative main clauses, imperatives, and non-verbal and existential sentences in Hamar, an Aroid language of the Omotic language family. It describes the ways in which negation is expressed in the language, and positions the discussion in light of cross-linguistic observations made by Dahl (1979, 2010), Payne (1985), Miestamo (2005, 2007), Eriksen (2011) and others. The morpheme -t- is used in Hamar to mark negation in both verbal and non-verbal clauses. This means that Hamar has a morphological or affixal negation (Dahl 2010). The language uses two different sets of subject agreement affixes for the affirmative and negative counterparts. While affirmative sentences employ a shortened pronoun, a set of agreement suffixes is used in the negative. In this study, it is suggested that the negative verbs may have preserved older subject agreement morphemes which are now lost in the affirmative, as negatives are less affected by innovation, cf. Zargulla in Azeb 2009 and Canadian French in Poplack 2001. Moreover, close interaction is reported between negation and TAM (Tense, Aspect and Mood) categories. For example, some of the aspect/tense categories that occur in the affirmative are neutralised in the negative. Negative constructions in Hamar are not only different from their affirmative counterparts due to the presence of the negation morpheme –t-, but also in terms of subject agreement marking and tense/aspect categories. As a result, it is argued that Hamar has an asymmetric negation system, cf. Miestamo 2005.

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Negation in Hamar

Mendisu¹

2017

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“…Non-verbal predication constitutes a cross-linguistically salient clause domain which tends to exhibit negative patterns diverging from other clause types (Eriksen 2011;Miestamo 2017). This is also the case for Bantu, where these diverging patterns furthermore may include the use of negative verbs.…”

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Bantu negative verbs: a typological-comparative investigation of form, function and distribution

Bernander¹,

Devos²,

Gibson³

2023

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This paper investigates the use of verbs in the expression of negation across Bantu. The development of erstwhile lexical verbs into markers of negation is an understudied yet widespread phenomenon across the language family. In this sample of 100 languages, we identify a range of pathways as well as specific functions performed by such verbs. Specifically, we identify the use of both intrinsic negative verbs -i.e. those with inherent negative meanings -and extrinsic negative verbs -i.e. those which do not have an inherently negative meaning, but which have assumed dedicated negative functions through their use in specific constructions. This latter category can further be divided into two subtypes: those with negative inflectional material and those without. Across our sample, we explore the use of negative verbs in main clauses, non-declarative clauses such as prohibitives and interrogatives, non-verbal predicative clauses, as well as in non-main clause contexts such as in complement, relative and adverbial clauses. We further explore negative verbs for negation of infinitives and in non-clausal negation. In this endeavor, we offer a refined understanding of the development and distribution of verbs as negators in Bantu languages, while also broadening our understanding of negation in general.

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Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization

Yang,

Gao

2023

Lingua

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‘To not be’ or not ‘to not be’

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Negation in Hamar

Negation in Hamar

Bantu negative verbs: a typological-comparative investigation of form, function and distribution

Polarity metaphor in English: Definition, identification, and categorization

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