Negation in Kulina
| Autor: | Olga Krasnoukhova, J C van der Auwera |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Lexeme Polarity (physics) diachrony of negation 05 social sciences Linguistics negative existential negative pro-sentence and semantic bleaching Negative Existential Cycle Language and Linguistics Lexical item diachrony of negation Jespersen Cycle negative existential Negative Existential Cycle negative pro-sentence and semantic bleaching Dynamic verb 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Jespersen Cycle Swap (finance) Negation 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Negative element Mathematics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Historical Linguistics Journal of Historical Linguistics, 9(2), 208-238 Journal of historical linguistics |
| ISSN: | 2210-2124 2210-2116 |
| Popis: | This study reconstructs the development of a negative existential and a negative pro-sentence in the Arawan language Kulina (Brazil-Peru). We demonstrate that the two elements forming the negative existential construction nowe (hi)ra- are involved in a double polarity swap: (i) an originally neutral lexical item (the dynamic verb nowe ‘show’) has become negative through contamination, and (ii) an originally negative element (hi)ra-, which was responsible for the contamination, is bleaching into a semantically neutral auxiliary. This lexeme nowe, with the auxiliary used only optionally, also functions as a negative pro-sentence now. Thus, synchronically we have a negative pro-sentence that has its origin in a semantically-neutral lexical item. Neither the source of the negative pro-sentence nor this diachronic path has surfaced in the literature on negation so far and thus they are instructive from diachronic and typological perspectives. The hypothesis enriches the literature on both the Jespersen Cycle and the Negative Existential Cycle. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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