<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">I hope this email finds you well.</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 send you this message because I am currently writing a paper on 'instead of' clauses or substitutive clauses. In this type of construction, of two alternatively possible events/activities <i>p </i>and <i>q</i>, <i>q </i>happens or is
performed although <i>p </i>was rather to be expected (e.g. 'We stayed at home instead of going for a walk in the snow'; Kortmann 1997: 89).</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">Cross-linguistically, there are languages in which the dependent clause of an 'instead of' construction is marked by a connective and it must also occur with a negative marker . Furthermore, there are languages in which the 'instead of' meaning is conveyed by a paratactic pattern that must appear with a negative marker (lit. 'she walked, not ran'). I was wondering if you know any languages that show a similar pattern for expressing 'instead of'. I was also wondering if you know any papers that have analyzed this type of construction.</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">Another important aspect of 'instead of' clauses that I should mention is that in various languages of my sample, 'instead of' clauses and 'before' clauses are encoded by the same clause-linkage pattern.</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><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);margin:0px"><font face="georgia, serif">Jesús Olguín Martínez</font></div><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://www.jesusolguinmartinez.com/?fbclid=IwAR2len8OjCPh6HfiREXrVK56ZMgLrXDUolQdO1G-cG9z2DDl4XM5ZvueVqs" target="_blank">Home - Jesús Olguín (jesusolguinmartinez.com)</a></font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Dissertation:</font></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif">Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2022. <i>Temporal adverbial clauses in the languages of the world: Clause-linking strategies</i>. Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Santa Barbara. </span></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font><div><font face="georgia, serif">Recent publications:</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Nicholas Lester. 2022. A
quantitative analysis of counterfactual conditionals in the world’s languages. <i>Italian
Journal of Linguistics 33</i>. 147-182.</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><a name="SignatureSanitizer__Hlk39482363" style="text-align:justify">Olguín
Martínez, Jesús. 2021. </a><span style="text-align:justify">‘As if’ constructions in world-wide perspective.
<i>Journal Linguistic typology at the crossroads</i> 1. 2-33.</span></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>