polarity-based DAM

[peterarkadiev]

Dear colleagues,

is anyone aware of clear cases of differential agent marking conditioned by negation (or involving negation as one of possible conditioning factors)? What I am looking for is not the famous Russian-type Genitive of negation but rather something similar to well-known TAM-based ergativity splits. An ideal example would be a language where Ergative case marking is limited to positive polarity environments and is suspended in the scope of negation.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Yours sincerely,

Peter Arkadiev
Institute of Slavic Studies
Moscow