<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Dear All,</div><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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Anvita</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Prof. Anvita Abbi</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Director: Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Sahitya Akademi</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">Rabindra Bhavan</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">35, Ferozeshah Road</font></p><p style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin-bottom:0.0001pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#ff0000" face="tahoma, sans-serif">New Delhi 110 001</font></p><div></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"></span><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="http://www.andamanese.net/" target="_blank">www.andamanese.net</a><br></span></div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Michael Daniel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misha.daniel@gmail.com" target="_blank">misha.daniel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>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><br>Michael Daniel<br><br>Dear all,<br><br>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><br><br>French:<br><br>Je crain-s que la lettre n’ arrive pas<br>I fear COMPL DEF letter NEG come.SUBJ.3SG NEG<br><br>LT: 'I am afraid that the letter does not arrive'<br>(less literal 'I am afraid that the letter may not arrive')<br><br>Japanese (example courtesy Tasaku Tsunoda):<br><br>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> <br>LT: ‘[I] am worried whether something bad did not happen.’<br>FT: ‘I am worried that something bad happened.’<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Nina Dobrushina<br></div>
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