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<body>Dear Jeanne,<div><br></div><div>I think no one mentioned Finnish yet: <br>In Finnish a typical way to express this Remind-Me function is a combination of simple
past tense and the negative polarity clitic particle <i>-kAAn </i>‘(not) even, (n)either’ attached to the verb., e.g.</div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-US">Mikä sun nimi oli-kaan?</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><br>
what you.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">gen</span> name be.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">3sg</span>.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">pst</span>-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">cl</span> (<i>sun</i>,
a colloquial form for ‘your,’ cf. Standard Finnish <i>sinu-n </i>you-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">gen</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">‘What was
your name, again?’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As a clitic
particle, the NPI <i>-kAAn – </i>as well as its positive polarity counterpart, the focus
particle <i>-kin </i>‘also, even’ – can be
attached both to nouns (basically meaning ‘even, either’ e.g. <i>minä-kään en tiedä </i><span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">1sg</span>-<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">cl</span>
<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">neg</span>.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">1sg</span> know.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">cng</span><i> </i>‘even I don’t know / I don’t know,
either) and to verbs with further pragmatic meanings, such as counter-expectation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="FI">Se ei ollut-kaan Anna.</span></i><span lang="FI"><br>
it <span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">neg.3sg</span> be.<span style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal;">ptcp-cl</span> A.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">’It wasn’t
Anna (counter to what I thought/expected).’<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">For other
combinations and meanings, see Vilkuna 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="SV-FI" style="line-height: 115%;"><font size="1">Vilkuna, Maria 2015: Negation in Finnish. </font></span><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 115%;"><font size="1">In
M. Miestamo, A. Tamm & B. Wagner-Nagy (eds.), Negation in Uralic Languages,
457–485. Typological Studies in Language 108. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.</font><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p>I hope this helps you further!</o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p><br></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Jutta<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br></span></p>
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www.uni-greifswald.de/fennistik</div><br><gotpl if="salutation"></gotpl><gotpl if="my_work_phone"><br></gotpl><br><br>Am Montag, den 31-03-2025 um 11:59 schrieb Jeanne Lecavelier des Etangs-Levallois via Lingtyp:<br><blockquote style="border:0;border-left: 2px solid #22437f; padding:0px; margin:0px; padding-left:5px; margin-left: 5px; ">Dear all,<br>
<br>
I am currently looking at Remind-Me particles (particles which express <br>
that the speaker is asking for an information they used to know but forgot, <br>
like English "again" in "What's your name again?") across languages. <br>
Specifically, I am interested in Remind-Me particles (i) which have another <br>
(canonical) meaning when used in other contexts, and (ii) whose <br>
other/canonical meaning is not "again".<br>
<br>
For instance, French Remind-Me particle is "déjà" ("already"): "Comment tu <br>
t'appelles toi déjà ?" (literally "What's your name already?") is <br>
interpreted as "What's your name again? (I forgot)".<br>
<br>
If you know of any such particle (which can have a Remind-Me use, and which <br>
does not mean "again") in your native language or the language(s) you're <br>
working on, please write to me :-)<br>
<br>
Many thanks for your help!<br>
Best,<br>
Jeanne Lecavelier<br>
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