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<p>Hi Jesús,<br>
expletive negation in combination with scalar additive operators
is not uncommon, but only in downward entailing / non-veridical
contexts.</p>
<p>The following example from Quebec French, quoted from Labelle
(2023, ex. [26c]), illustrates expletive negation in a relative
clause modifying a superlative NP. <br>
</p>
<p>'Sept générations de petits nés dans les pires conditions que tu
peux même pas imaginer.'</p>
'Seven generations of kids born in the worst conditions that you
can(not) even imagine.'
<p>Expletive negation may certainly generalize from downward
entailing to upward entailing contexts, specifically if mirativity
or exclamation is involved (see Jürgen's comment).</p>
<p>I agree with Pier Marco that your example looks strange. Was it
taken from a (written) narrative? And do you have similar examples
of that type? You'd have to rule out a temporal interpretation, as
Pier Marco wrote, and ideally you should have intonational
information, to understand any emotive meaning conveyed.</p>
<p>It would also be good to have more information about the entire
polarity system of Huasteca Nahuatl, and the distibution of
expletive negation (for a typological approach, see for instance
Jin & Koenig 2020).</p>
<p>In any case, I do not consider it unlikely that expletive
negation is found in combination with scalar additive operators in
upward entailing contexts; but I would predict that in such cases,
it will be found in downward entailing contexts, too.<br>
</p>
<p>Best,<br>
Volker</p>
<p>References<br>
</p>
<p>Labelle, M., (2023) “Apparent expletive negation, silent
comparatives, and domain widening in Quebec French superlative and
universal constructions”, <i>Glossa: a journal of general
linguistics</i> 8(1). doi: <a
href="https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9549"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9549</a>.</p>
<p>Jin, Yanwei and Koenig, Jean-Pierre. "A cross-linguistic study of
expletive negation" <i>Linguistic Typology</i>, vol. 25, no. 1,
2020, pp. 39-78. <a
href="https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2053"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://doi.org/10.1515/lingty-2020-2053</a></p>
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Francisco Olguin Martinez:<br>
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<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>
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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
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lang="ES-MX">Huasteca Nahuatl </span><span style=""
lang="ES-MX"></span></font></p>
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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>
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even the turtle.’</font></p>
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<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>
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style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><font
face="georgia, serif"><br>
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<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>
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<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font style=""
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style="text-align:justify;text-indent:0.5in"><br>
</span></font></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style=""><font style=""
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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>
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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>
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