<div dir="ltr">Dear Jorge,<div><br></div><div>Dahl's reference needs to be nuanced using his first-hand source, most likely Magometov' grammar (1965, p 208) (<i>alakuz</i> 'to smear' > neg <i>alalakuz, </i>etc). Here an analogical process yielded apparent reduplication of the preverb (the negation prefix has many allomorphs, one of which ends up matching one of the preverbs).</div><div>More to your point are the neighbouring (also East Caucasian but but not closely related) Dargwa dialects), where the <u>root </u>appears duplicated before the original negative prefixed form, in particular Kubachi, after the negation prefix underwent attrition, also described by Magometov (1963): <i>ba:q'ij</i> 'to do', neg. <i>ba:q'a:q'ij (< </i><i>b-a:q'-(a)-a:q'-ij </i>gender-do.PF-(NEG)-do.pf-INF<i>)</i></div><div><br></div><div>This is very probably a micro-areal feature.</div><div>GA</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 5:01 PM Jorge Rosés Labrada <<a href="mailto:jrosesla@ualberta.ca">jrosesla@ualberta.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Estimad@s, prezad@s, dear everyone,<div><br></div><div>Is any of you familiar with a language where negation (of main clauses but I'll take any type of negation) is marked via reduplication? Dahl (1979:81) says this is a "marginal" type of negation marking and mentions only one language (Tabasaran, Nakh-Daghestanian) where a subset of verbs (trisyllabic and with a preverb) mark negation via reduplication—in this case, reportedly of the second syllable—and Inkelas (2012: 357) says that reduplication in one <font color="#000000">"<span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Roboto,FreeSans,Arial,sans-serif">of the functions that seem rarely, if ever, to be reduplicative in form."</span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Roboto,FreeSans,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,"Segoe UI",Roboto,FreeSans,Arial,sans-serif">Any suggestions would be much appreciated!</span></font></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Jorge</div><div><br></div><div>References:</div><div><div style="line-height:1.35;margin-left:2em">
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<span title="url_ver=Z39.88-2004&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fzotero.org%3A2&rft_id=info%3Adoi%2F10.1515%2Fling.1979.17.1-2.79&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Typology%20of%20sentence%20negation&rft.jtitle=Linguistics&rft.volume=17&rft.issue=1-2&rft.aufirst=%C3%96sten&rft.aulast=Dahl&rft.au=%C3%96sten%20Dahl&rft.date=1979&rft.pages=79%E2%80%93106&rft.spage=79&rft.epage=106&rft.issn=0024-3949%2C%201613-396X&rft.language=en"></span></div><div><span>Dahl, Östen. 1979. “Typology of Sentence Negation.” </span><i>Linguistics</i><span> 17 (1–2): 79–106. </span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1979.17.1-2.79" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1979.17.1-2.79</a><span>.</span></div><div>Inkelas, Sharon. 2012. “Reduplication.” In <i>The Morphology and Phonology of Exponence</i>, edited by Jochen Trommer, 355–79. Oxford: Oxford University Press. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573721.003.0011" target="_blank">https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573721.003.0011</a>.</div>
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