Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages
Abstract In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to excl...
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| author | Johan van der Auwera Olga Krasnoukhova |
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| description | Abstract In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to exclude each other. In particular, we propose that an existential negator can be reanalyzed as a privative one. We also argue that if the origin of the standard negator is a verb with the meaning ‘finish’, we may be dealing with a scenario that is similar to the ‘Negative Existential Cycle’. In both, the existential negator denies the existence of a state of affairs and then turns into a standard negator. But whereas in the Negative Existential Cycle the non-existence of a state of affairs is modelled on the non-existence of an object, in the ‘new’ scenario the non-existence of a state of affairs derives from the fact that a process or event has come to an end. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-70cad225dc5a4f488f0a4a6e4ecf8bd12022-12-22T04:03:05ZengMuseu Paraense Emílio GoeldiBoletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas2178-25472022-08-0117210.1590/2178-2547-bgoeldi-2021-0062Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languagesJohan van der Auwerahttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9222-2994Olga Krasnoukhovahttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1953-7954Abstract In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to exclude each other. In particular, we propose that an existential negator can be reanalyzed as a privative one. We also argue that if the origin of the standard negator is a verb with the meaning ‘finish’, we may be dealing with a scenario that is similar to the ‘Negative Existential Cycle’. In both, the existential negator denies the existence of a state of affairs and then turns into a standard negator. But whereas in the Negative Existential Cycle the non-existence of a state of affairs is modelled on the non-existence of an object, in the ‘new’ scenario the non-existence of a state of affairs derives from the fact that a process or event has come to an end.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222022000200207&tlng=enStandard negationPostverbal negationJê languagesExistential negationPrivative negationProhibitive negation |
| spellingShingle | Johan van der Auwera Olga Krasnoukhova Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas Standard negation Postverbal negation Jê languages Existential negation Privative negation Prohibitive negation |
| title | Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages |
| title_full | Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages |
| title_fullStr | Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages |
| title_short | Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages |
| title_sort | revisiting postverbal standard negation in the je languages |
| topic | Standard negation Postverbal negation Jê languages Existential negation Privative negation Prohibitive negation |
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