‘Without V-ing’ clauses: clausal negative concomitance in typological perspective

Martínez, Jesús Olguín; Llanes, Manuel Peregrina

doi:10.1515/flin-2022-2049

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“…The sources of the sample indicate that 'without' has been derived from 'while' ('while' > 'without'), indicating a direction of development from a concrete to a more abstract meaning. The development of 'while' into 'without' can be explained by the fact that 'without' involves a simultaneous situation in which 'p' does not accompany 'q' (see Olguín Martínez & Peregrina Llanes 2023). This situation more often than not runs counter to expectation, or is simply regarded as remarkable (e.g., 'he went past me without greeting me').…”

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Temporal adverbial clauses: A cross-linguistic perspective

Olguín Martínez

2023

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The study explores the form and function of ‘when’, ‘while’, ‘after’, ‘before’, and ‘until’ clauses in a variety sample of 218 languages. First, it is demonstrated that temporal adverbial clauses tend to be encoded with conjunctions and converbs in the database. A chi-squared goodness-of-fit test shows that ‘after’, ‘before’, and ‘until’ meanings are strongly and similarly associated with monofunctional clause-linking devices cross-linguistically. ‘While’ meanings are ambivalent, and ‘when’ meanings are strongly encoded with polyfunctional clause-linking devices. Second, the paper also explores the polyfunctionality patterns of temporal adverbial clause-linking devices. While the semantic polyfunctionality patterns attested in the present research align, for the most part, with those documented by other typological studies, there are a number of patterns that have been neglected in the typological literature, such as the polyfunctionality pattern between ‘while’ and ‘without’, between ‘after’ and ‘lest’, and between ‘before’ and ‘lest’, among others.

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Temporal adverbial clauses: A cross-linguistic perspective

Olguín Martínez

2023

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‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl

Olguin Martinez

2024

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A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural discourse data, that expletive negation has developed an intriguing discourse function in three types of ‘until’ constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl: ‘not…until’ constructions, scalar additive ‘until’ constructions, and beginning-to-end constructions. When the negative marker amo appears in the ‘until’ clause, the proposition should be characterized as expressing surprise. When it is absent from the ‘until’ clause, the proposition does not express surprise. This function of the expletive negative marker amo does not appear in elicited sentences, but only in spontaneous speech. It is proposed that Huasteca Nahuatl developed expletive negation in ‘not…until’ constructions due to contact with Spanish. However, the development of expletive negation in scalar additive ‘until’ constructions and beginning-to-end constructions is an internally motivated development in Huasteca Nahuatl that cannot be attributed to Spanish.

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The interaction of standard negation in clauses of substitution: a typological account

Olguín Martínez

2023

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This paper explores clauses of substitution (e.g. instead of relaxing on the beach, he went to a concert) in a sample of forty-six languages. It is shown that clauses of substitution marked with monofunctional conjunctions or monofunctional converbs may not occur with standard negative markers. Clauses of substitution appearing with polyfunctional conjunctions or polyfunctional converbs may occur with obligatory standard negative markers. In these cases, negation shows a negative import as an effect of compositional interpretation. Interestingly, there are languages in which clauses of substitution marked with monofunctional clause-linking devices may occur with optional negative markers. In this scenario, the presence or absence of the negative marker does not change the adverbial relation holding between clauses. Instead, it seems to have an expressive- evaluative layer of semantic interpretation. When the negative marker is present in the clause of substitution, it indicates that the situation was not surprising. When the negative marker is absent, the situation must be understood as surprising.

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‘Without V-ing’ clauses: clausal negative concomitance in typological perspective

Cited by 6 publications

References 65 publications

Temporal adverbial clauses: A cross-linguistic perspective

Temporal adverbial clauses: A cross-linguistic perspective

‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl

The interaction of standard negation in clauses of substitution: a typological account

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