<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">As you know, many languages, in particular Amazonian languages, have frustrative markers with extended functions. One of the extended functions of frustrative markers is to express counterfactual conditionals (Overall 2017; Olguin Martinez & Lester to appear). </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">I was wondering if you are aware of any Amazonian language that also employs frustrative markers to express 'before'. </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">Given that <i>before</i>-clauses express situations that have not yet been realized when the main clause situation takes place (Kortmann 1997: 84-85), I was wondering if frustrative markers may also appear in constructions encoding 'before'.</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">Thank you very much in advance!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Best,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"></span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="AR CENA"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Jesús Olguín Martínez</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA">Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of Linguistics</font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA"><i>University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)</i></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="AR CENA"><a href="http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jes%C3%BAs-olgu%C3%ADn-mart%C3%ADnez" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/people/jesús-olguín-martínez</a></font></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;font-size:15px;margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;font-family:georgia,serif"></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><font face="wf_segoe-ui_normal, Segoe UI, Segoe WP, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont" style="font-size:15px"></font>References</font></div></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail-person_name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default">Olguin Martinez, Jesus and Nicholas Lester. To appear. </span></span>A quantitative analysis of counterfactual
conditionals in the world’s languages. <i>Italian Journal of Linguistics</i>.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail-person_name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span class="gmail_default"></span>Overall, Simon<span class="gmail_default">. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">2017<span class="gmail_default">. A typology of frustrative marking in Amazonian languages. </span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">In<span class="gmail_default"> </span></span><span class="gmail-person_name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, and </span><span class="gmail-person_name" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dixon, R.M.W.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, (eds.) The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Typology. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 477-512.</span></font></div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:15px;font-family:wf_segoe-ui_normal,"Segoe UI","Segoe WP",Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>