<html><head></head><body><div class="ydpca964994yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">Dear All,</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">I hope you have started a happy new year.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;">In the corpus of one of my students in Hamedani Persian (a variety spoken in Hamedan, west of Iran), we have found some adverbial clauses in which the verb is marked by negative prefix, but it does not mean negative. These adverbial clauses mark Time (meaning 'as soon as') and Reason, or both at the same time. Some examples:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false" style=""> <div style=""><p class="ydp24f6f745MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Garamond,serif;mso-fareast-font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond;color:black;mso-bidi-font-style:italic"><span>1.<span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Garamond,serif;color:black;background:white">i <span> </span>ke
<span> </span>kur <span> </span><b>na</b></span><b>-šod</b>, <span> </span>man
<span> </span>diye <span> </span>ruz-e xoš <span> </span><span> </span>na-didam</i></p>
<p class="ydp24f6f745MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-bidi-language:FA"> he <span> </span>that
<span> </span>blind <span> </span>NEG-become, I <span> </span>anymore
day-EZ happy <span> </span>NEG-see-1SG </span></p>
<div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-bidi-language:FA"> As soon as he got blind, I had no good times.</span></div><div style="line-height: 200%;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style=""><p class="ydpa53b1b4fMsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="background-color: inherit;">2.</font></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 7pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><!--[endif]--><span dir="LTR"></span><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">das <span> </span>ke <span> </span><b>ne-mi-ke</b></span></i><b style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">š</span></i></b><b style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><i><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">-i</span></i></b><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA"> <span> </span><span> </span>ru har</span></i><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">č</span></i><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">i, <span> </span><span> </span>x</span></i><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">ā</span></i><i style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA">k-e</span></i></p>
<p class="ydpa53b1b4fMsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA"> hand <span> </span>that<span> </span>NEG-IND-touch-2SG<span> </span>over<span> </span>everything,
<span> </span>dirty-BE.3SG</span></p>
<p class="ydpa53b1b4fMsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman,serif;mso-ascii-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-hansi-theme-font:major-bidi;mso-bidi-font-family:B Nazanin;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:FA"> As you touch everything, it is dirty.</span></p></div></div><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 200%;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div style="line-height: 200%;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I wonder if there is any other language in which the adverbial clause is negative in form but not in meaning. I searched to find some evidence or some sources which mention this, but I was not successful. I appreciate your comments.</div><div style="line-height: 200%;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Best regards,</div><div style="line-height: 200%;" dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Mohammad </div></div></div></div><div style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></div><div class="ydpca964994signature" style="font-family: garamond, new york, times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><div style="font-family:garamond, times, serif;font-size:13px;"><div><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand </font></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Linguistics Department,</font></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Bu-Ali Sina University, </font></div><div><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Hamedan, Iran.</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">Postal Code: 6517838695 </font></div><div><a href="https://basu.academia.edu/MohammadRasekhmahand" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><font color="#4c76a2" size="1" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif">https://basu.academia.edu/MohammadRasekhmahand<br></font></a><br></div></div></div></div></body></html>