Typology of sentence negation

Dahl, Östen

doi:10.1515/ling.1979.17.1-2.79

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“…Although apparently rare, (partial or total) reduplication is found as a process in the formation of negative verb forms in a diverse range of languages. It was first reported in the typological literature by Dahl (1979) for Tabassaran (Lezgic, Nakh-Daghestanian; Russia) as described in Khanmagomedov (1967), and later reported for Eleme (Cross-River, NigerCongo; Nigeria) by Anderson & Bond (2003). Other languages exhibiting this property include Chepang (Bodic, Tibeto-Burman; Nepal), Coast Tarangan (Central Malayo-Polynesian, Austronesian: Indonesia), Linda (Ubangi, Niger-Congo; Central African Republic) and Mono (Ubangi, Niger-Congo; Democratic Republic of Congo) (see Bond 2012Bond , 2013.…”

Section: Negative Habitualsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Negation through reduplication and tone: implications for the Lexical Functional Grammar/Paradigm Function Morphology interface

Bond

2015

J. Ling.

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Morphological marking of negation through verbal reduplication and tone is a typologically rare phenomenon attested in Eleme (Niger-Congo; Nigeria). Using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) and Paradigm Function Morphology (PFM) to model first-hand data, I argue that reduplication is not a direct exponent of negation in Eleme, but an asemantic morphomic process, indirectly associated with the presence of a negative polarity feature in LFG's m(orphological)-structure. While negative verb forms of this kind are typologically unusual, the data can be explained by independently motivated morphology-internal principles. The empirical facts thereby provide support for an m-structure, characterised by its own principles and rules, which interfaces with a bifurcated lexicon that separates content from form.

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Section: Negative Habitualsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Negation through reduplication and tone: implications for the Lexical Functional Grammar/Paradigm Function Morphology interface

Bond

2015

J. Ling.

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“…There are also no indications that the Ket negative particle bǝ:n or the Rukai negative suffix -ka originate in a negative verb. The expression of negation via negative auxiliaries is worldwide a minor type to begin with, found in only 40 (17 per cent) out of 240 languages in Dahl's (1979) sample, which is areally biased towards Uralic and Altaic languages, in 45 (4 per cent) out of 1,011 languages in Dryer's (2005d) sample, and in 16 (5 per cent) out of the 297 languages in Miestamo's (2005) sample. As a consequence, the particular development of negative verbs to auxiliaries to particles or suffixes is hence even rarer.…”

Section: (14) Kolyma Yukaghirmentioning

confidence: 93%

The Transeurasian Languages

Robbeets

2017

The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics

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“…Though the claim that the operator bixlal has taken on negation seems somewhat dramatic, there are many similar cases discussed in the literature, mainly those of Jespersen (1917). Jespersen introduced the Jespersen's Cycle (JC), a term coined by Dahl (1979). The JC is a series of syntactic processes of change which describe the historical development of the expression of negation in a variety of languages, from a simple pre-verbal marker of negation, through a discontinuous marker.…”

Section: Palavras-chavementioning

confidence: 99%