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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Dear Jesus – Expletive negation has also been noted in mirative contexts recently, in Spanish of all languages:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="https://rrg2023.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RRG2023-Hasler_Gonzalez_Flores.pdf">https://rrg2023.phil.hhu.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/RRG2023-Hasler_Gonzalez_Flores.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve definitely seen this kind of use of negation in other languages as well.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">It doesn’t seem hard to think of a connection between mirativity and scalar focus particles, since both may be involved in framing the extent of something as surprising/extreme.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best – Juergen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez <olguinmartinez@ucsb.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, September 6, 2023 at 23:00<br>
<b>To: </b>lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] Expletive NEG and scalar additive 'until' clauses<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">I was wondering if you know any languages in which expletive negation appears in scalar additive constructions, as in (1).</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black">Huasteca Nahuatl
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<i>huankino hualah-ki kuatochi</i>, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> and.then come-pfv bunny</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> ‘The bunny came to the party,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">hua
<b>asta</b> <b>amo</b> hualah-ki koxua-li</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">and until neg come-pfv turtle-abs</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif"> and even the turtle.’</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"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. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">The fact that temporal ‘until’ markers may develop into scalar additive operators has not gone unnoticed (König 1991; Jasionytė-Mikučionienė 2019: 293). However, to the best of
my knowledge, scalar additive ‘until’ clauses with expletive negation seem to be rare cross-linguistically. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">Best,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif">References</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika. 2019. Subordinating conjunctions as discourse markers in Lithuanian.
<i>Corpus Pragmatics</i> 3. 285–301</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">König, Ekkehard. 1991.
<i>The meaning of focus particles: A comparative perspective</i>. London: Routledge.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:106%"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Alexander von Humboldt alumnus</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#212121"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222">Olguín Martínez, Jesús</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">. 2023. Semantically
negative clause-linkage: ‘Let alone’ constructions, (expletive) negation, and theoretical implications. </span><i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222">Linguistic Typology</span></i><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> published
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222">Olguín Martínez, Jesús</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">. 2023. </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222">Areality
of clause-linkage: The consecutive construction in Mesoamerican languages. <i>Voprosy Jazykoznanija</i> (‘Topics in the Study of Language’) 3. 122-142.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Olguín Martínez, Jesús. 2023. A typological study of tail-head linkage constructions. In <i>Discourse
phenomena in typological perspective</i>, </span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Alessandra Barotto and Simone Mattiola (eds.), 403-432. John Benjamins: Studies in Language Companian
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Peregrina Llanes</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">. 2022. ‘Without V-ing’ clauses: Clausal negative concomitance in typological perspective. </span><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Folia
Linguistica</span></i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">. <i>Acta Societatis Linguisticae Europaeae</i> published online December 2022.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Olguín Martínez, Jesús & Alonso Vásquez. 2022. The contribution of Amazonian languages to
the typology of purpose clauses. </span><i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">LIAMES: Línguas Indígenas Americanas</span></i><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> 22.
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language change: The case of Mixtec adverbial clauses. <i>Journal of Language Contact. Evolution of Languages, Contact and Discourse</i> 15. 1-70.</span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#222222"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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