<div dir="auto">Italian " un cazzo" lit. 'a penis ' ( with article!) behaves exactly in the same way. Floricic (<a href="mailto:franck.floricic@univ-paris3.fr">franck.floricic@univ-paris3.fr</a>) knows a lot about that topic.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il Mar 13 Giu 2023, 15:01 Michael Daniel <<a href="mailto:misha.daniel@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">misha.daniel@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Pun Ho Lui,</div><div><br></div>In Russian strong speech, 'penis' is used as a non-referential NP in different type of emphatic negation; including constructions very similar to what you quote. See for examples, some way below. Note that "ни" is a negative particle distinct from regular negative "не" and commonly (though not exclusively) used under the scope of clausal negation; I am not sure how to gloss it. <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Daniel</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>он ни хуя не знает</div><div>he.nom not penis-Sg.Gen not knows</div><div>'he does not know anything at all'</div><div><br></div><div>хуй тебе, а не деньги</div><div>penis.Sg.Nom you.sg-Dat, and not money</div><div>'You are not getting anything, you are not (instead of) getting any money'</div><div><br></div><div>ни хуя (подобн-ого)</div><div>not penis-Sg.Gen (similar-N.Sg.Gen)</div><div>'Nothing like that at all!'<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">вт, 13 июн. 2023 г. в 14:45, Stefan Savić <<a href="mailto:stefansavicz@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">stefansavicz@gmail.com</a>>:<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">Dear Pun Ho Lui, Dear All, <div><br></div><div>In BCMS/Serbocroatian one can also use the genitive singular form <i>đavola </i>("devil") in the same function, now hardly considered a swear word per se, but once it definitely was (along with other religious terms). As a matter of fact, in numerous such instances, the nominative singular <i>kurac</i> is often replaceable with the genitive singular <i>đavola </i>(whereby the latter sounds considerably milder than the former). <div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Stefan</div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 13 Jun 2023 at 14:35, Pun Ho Lui <<a href="mailto:luiph001@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">luiph001@gmail.com</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>Dear linguists,<div><br></div><div>Swearwords/taboo words can function as a negator (1) or minimizer/“squatitive” (2):</div><div><br></div><div>(1) Cantonese </div><div> 我 撚 知</div><div> 1sg dick know</div><div> ‘I don’t know.’</div><div><br></div><div>(2) I learn fuck all/ shit.</div><div>‘I learn nothing.’</div><div><br></div><div>Other languages with these pattens include:</div><div><br></div><div>- Russian </div><div>- German <i>einen Teufel </i>‘a devil’</div><div>- Swedish <i>så fan Heller</i></div><div><i>- </i>French <i>mon cul</i> ‘my ass’ (?)</div><div>- Polish <i>chuj </i>‘dick’; <i>gówno </i>’shit’</div><div>- Serbian <i>kurac </i>‘penis'</div><div>- Croatian <i>kurac ‘penis’</i></div><div>- Colloquail Finnish “aggressive mood”</div><div><br></div><div>These examples are provided in: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/lingtyp/permalink/6751622964867235/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/lingtyp/permalink/6751622964867235/</a></div><div><br></div><div>I am wondering if there are other languages performing similar constructions. If so, is the any requirement for using them.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Warmest,</div><div>Pun Ho Lui</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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