Abstract
This study deals with clausal negation in Awa Pit, a Barbacoan language spoken in South America. By bringing together the data on negation from different varieties of the language, we present an analysis of synchronic patterns of negation marking. Based on the variation we suggest a number of innovations in the negation system, for which we put forward diachronic scenarios. Some innovations are likely to be contact-induced, whereas others are products of language-internal diachronic processes. The latter involve mechanisms associated with a classical ‘Jespersen Cycle’. However, Awa Pit offers us very non-classical Jespersen’s Cycles – at best. The case of Awa Pit is instructive as some of the scenarios that we suggest are likely to be relevant for other languages or languages families.
Abbreviations
- 1
1st person
- 2
2nd person
- 3
3rd person
- acc
accusative
- add
additive marker
- bor
borrowing
- col
collective
- com
comitative
- comp
completive aspect
- con
connector
- conj
conjunct
- concess
concessive
- constit
constituent
- cop
copula
- dcl
declarative
- dir.obj
direct object
- disj
disjunct
- dl
distal
- emph
emphatic
- foc
focus
- fut
future
- gen
generic
- ipfv
imperfective aspect
- ipfvpart
imperfective participle
- incep
inceptive aspect
- inf
infinitive
- inter
interrogative marker
- intrz
intransitivizer
- loc
locative
- necess
necessitive mood
- neg
negative
- nmlz
nominalization
- nom
nominative
- non-verb.pred
non-verbal predicate
- pers
person
- pfvpart
perfective participle
- pl
plural
- pro
pronoun
- prosp
prospective aspect marker
- pst
past
- q
question marker
- rest
restrictive marker
- rp
reportative
- sg
singular
- simult
simultaneous
- sp
Spanish loan
- subj
subject
- top
topic marker
Acknowledgements
Our thanks are due to Martine Bruil and Simeon Floyd for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper, and to Pieter Muysken, Connie Dickinson and Geny Gonzales Castaño, all of whom have shared their knowledge on the Barbacoan languages with us. We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers and the editors for helping us improve the paper. The study has been carried out with the financial support of Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).
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- Using character N-grams to explorediachronic change in medieval English
- The diachrony of velar coronalization in Mojeño (Arawakan)
- Prosodic change and the (apparent) irregularities in the development of segments
- From Athenian fleet to prophetic eschatology. Correlating formal features to themes of discourse in Ancient Greek
- Fine details of a larger picture: Proto-Sakishima *au and *ao diphthongs
- Standard negation in Awa Pit: From synchrony to diachrony
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- Frontmatter
- Main Articles
- Using character N-grams to explorediachronic change in medieval English
- The diachrony of velar coronalization in Mojeño (Arawakan)
- Prosodic change and the (apparent) irregularities in the development of segments
- From Athenian fleet to prophetic eschatology. Correlating formal features to themes of discourse in Ancient Greek
- Fine details of a larger picture: Proto-Sakishima *au and *ao diphthongs
- Standard negation in Awa Pit: From synchrony to diachrony
- Parentheticals revisited: The case of Dutch denken
- On the development of two progressive constructions in U̠t-Ma’in
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