Negative exclamatives in Afrikaans: some initial thoughts

Autor:	Biberauer, Theresa, Potgieter, Jean-Marie
Jazyk:	Afrikaans<br />English
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Exclamatives Afrikaans expletive negation true optionality Language and Literature Philology. Linguistics P1-1091 African languages and literature PL8000-8844
Zdroj:	Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, Vol 48, Iss 0, Pp 17-33 (2017)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1027-3417 2223-9936
DOI:	10.5842/48-0-278
Popis:	We consider the to date minimally discussed phenomenon of negative exclamatives in Afrikaans. Negative exclamatives superficially seem to be negative, when they are in fact positive exclamations. These structures therefore feature so-called expletive negation. Our goal is to illustrate some aspects of the phenomenon as it manifests in Afrikaans, and to demonstrate that Afrikaans’s negative exclamatives seem well behaved when considered against a broader crosslinguistic backdrop.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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