<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style="">Dear all,</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">I was wondering if you know any languages in which expletive negation appears in scalar additive constructions, as in (1).</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><span lang="ES-MX" style="color:black">Huasteca Nahuatl </span><span lang="ES-MX" style=""></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif">(1) <i>huankino hualah-ki kuatochi</i>, </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"> and.then come-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal">pfv</span> bunny</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"> ‘The
bunny came to the party,</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"><i>hua <b>asta</b> <b>amo</b> </i><i>hualah-ki koxua-li</i>.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif">and until <span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal">neg </span>come-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal">pfv</span> turtle-<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;font-variant-alternates:normal">abs</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><font face="georgia, serif"> and
even the turtle.’</font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif">The expletive negative marker in (1) seems to have an interesting discourse function in scalar additive 'until' clauses, and it seems that other Mesoamerican languages have developed similar constructions due to language contact. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in">The
fact that temporal ‘until’ markers may develop into scalar additive operators
has not gone unnoticed (König 1991; </span>Jasionytė-Mikučionienė 2019: 293)<span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in">.</span><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"> However, to the best of my knowledge, scalar
additive ‘until’ clauses with expletive negation seem to be rare
cross-linguistically. </span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in">Best,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="georgia, serif" style=""><span style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><b>References</b></span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:12pt">Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika. 2019. Subordinating conjunctions as discourse markers in Lithuanian. <i>Corpus Pragmatics</i> 3. 285–301</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">König, Ekkehard. 1991. <i>The meaning of focus particles:
A comparative perspective</i>. London: Routledge.</span></p></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"><div style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)">--<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Jesús Olguín Martínez</font></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Theoretical Linguistics</font></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Illinois State University English Department</font></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-align:justify"><font face="georgia, serif">Alexander von Humboldt alumnus</font></span></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-align:justify"><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="https://ilstu.academia.edu/Jes%C3%BAsOlgu%C3%ADnMart%C3%ADnez" class="gmail-ContentPasted0" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Jesús Olguín Martínez | Illinois State University - Academia.edu</a></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div dir="ltr" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif">Recent publications:</font></div><div style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:georgia,serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;text-align:justify">Olguín Martínez, Jesús</a><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:georgia,serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;text-align:justify">. 2023. 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