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<div>I need a clarification here. The Japanese sentence can be paraphrased as: Something bad may have happened. I am afraid of that. But do the Hindi and French sentences mean: He may come. I am afraid of that. Or: He may not come. I am afraid of that. ?</div>
<div>It could just be a question whether the complementizer means that or if (like Japanese ka); the latter would require a negation that disappears when the complementizer is rendered by a that-like conjunction in a different language. </div>
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Den 19/03/2015 kl. 08.17 skrev "Anvita Abbi" <<a href="mailto:anvitaabbi@gmail.com">anvitaabbi@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Hindi is one language with such structures. One example is given here.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><i>mujhe Dar hai ki vo aa na jaye</i></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">1sg.Dat fear AUX COMP 3sg come NEG come</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Literal: 'I am afraid that he does not come'</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Michael Daniel <span dir="ltr">
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below is a letter I post on behalf of Nina Dobrushina. If you have any references or ideas that you could share, please send them to her:
<a href="mailto:nina.dobrushina@gmail.com" target="_blank">nina.dobrushina@gmail.com</a> (also in the copy above)<br>
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Michael Daniel<br>
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Dear all,<br>
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could you give me hints on empirical evidence and literature about languages where the predicates of fear (‘fear’, ‘to be afraid’, ‘to worry’ and the like) (tend to) have negation in the complement clause? I am aware of Russian, French (and other Romance languages),
Japanese, and some Turkic languages like Kumyk. Two examples are provided below.<br>
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French:<br>
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Je crain-s que la lettre n’ arrive pas<br>
I fear COMPL DEF letter NEG come.SUBJ.3SG NEG<br>
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LT: 'I am afraid that the letter does not arrive'<br>
(less literal 'I am afraid that the letter may not arrive')<br>
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Japanese (example courtesy Tasaku Tsunoda):<br>
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Nanika waru-i koto=ga oki-nak-at-ta=ka sinpai=da<br>
something bad-NPST thing=NOM happen-NEG-LINK-PST=Q worried=COP.NPNST<br>
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LT: ‘[I] am worried whether something bad did not happen.’<br>
FT: ‘I am worried that something bad happened.’<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Nina Dobrushina<br>
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