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<p>Dear all,<br>
<br>
let me add some examples from Finnish, where the adverb _vain_ 'only' seems to trigger the negation in the complement clause of 'fear':<br>
<br>
(1) Pelkää-n, ett-ei vain tule astma<br>
fear-1SG COMP-NEG.3SG only come.STEM asthma<br>
'I'm afraid it may develop to asthma'<br>
<br>
(2) Pelkää-n, ett-ei vain ole jotain vakava-mpa-a...<br>
fear-1SG COMP-NEG.3SG only be.STEM something serious-CPR-PRTV<br>
'I'm afraid it may be something more serious'<br>
<br>
In this construction Conditional (as in ex. 3 below) is often used but not necessary as shown by (1) and (2).<br>
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(3) Mutta pelkää-n ett-ei vain ol-isi alka-va-a<br>
but fear-1SG COMP-NEG.3SG only be-COND begin-PTCP-PRTV<br>
<br>
alzheimeri-n tauti-a<br>
Alzheimer-GEN disease-PRTV<br>
<br>
'But I'm afraid it might be something more serious'<br>
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Best,<br>
Hannu<br>
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Quoting Anvita Abbi <<a href="mailto:anvitaabbi@gmail.com">anvitaabbi@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Here is the grammatical information with phonetic transcription to clear<br>
> the air. Semantically the two sentences are equal. I don't think that<br>
> (1) is passive.<br>
><br>
> 1. /mujh-e //ɖǝr h//ɛ ki vo<br>
> a na ja-ye/<br>
><br>
> 1sg-dat fear aux comp 3sg <br>
> come neg go-subjunctive<br>
><br>
> ‘I am afraid lest he come’ OR ‘I am afraid he might come’<br>
><br>
> Sentence 1 is equivalent to sentence 2 with non-negative and future tense.<br>
><br>
> 2. /mujh-e //ɖǝr h//ɛ <br>
> ki vo a ja-yega/<br>
><br>
> 1sg-dat fear aux comp 3sg <br>
> come go-fut.3msg<br>
><br>
> ‘I afraid that he will come’<br>
> Anvita<br>
><br>
> Prof. Anvita Abbi<br>
><br>
> Director: Centre for Oral and Tribal Literature<br>
><br>
> Sahitya Akademi<br>
><br>
> Rabindra Bhavan<br>
><br>
> 35, Ferozeshah Road<br>
><br>
> New Delhi 110 001<br>
> <a href="http://www.andamanese.net" target="_blank">www.andamanese.net</a>[1]<br>
> President: Linguistic Society of India<br></p>
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<div class="impComposeSignature">Hannu Tommola<br>
Professor emer. of Russian Language (Translation Theory and Practice)<br>
School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies<br>
FIN-33014 University of Tampere, Finland</div>
<p>Linkit:<br>
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[1] <a href="http://www.andamanese.net/" target="_blank">http://www.andamanese.net/</a><br type="_moz"></p>
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