[Lingtyp] Negation marks adverbial clauses

Wed Jan 12 13:24:05 UTC 2022

Expletive negation is also found in Mandarin, but it has been argued by Shen Jiaxuan to be due originally to a slip of the tongue phenomenon, a merging of a form meaning “when it had not” and “before it had” into “before it had not”, as in the following:
在新的规范没有公布时/在新的规范公布之前→在新的规范没有公布之前

zài   xīn   de       guīfàn    méiyǒu gōngbù    zhīqián
LOC new ASSOC standard not.yet announce before
‘before the new standard has not been announced’ = ‘before the new standard has been announced'

沈家煊（1992）口误类型，《中国语文》第4 期。
沈家煊（2006）糅合和截搭，《世界汉语教学》第4 期。

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> On 12 Jan 2022, at 7:38 PM, Guillaume Jacques <rgyalrongskad at gmail.com> wrote:
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> =’until’: seems to be very restricted areally, mainly Eastern Europe & Caucasus and South Asia (Indo-Aryan and Indo-sphere Sino-Tibetan), but also Paumarí (maybe due to influence from Portuguese enquanto...não ?). In Eastern Europe and in Indo-Aryan, this seems to be a parallel rather recent development (i.e. not going back to Indo-European). An interesting question is how the possible areal relationship between modern Indo-Aryan and Indo-sphere Sino-Tibetan looks like: “as long as not” for ‘until’ is very common in some Sino-Tibetan languages. I think it is an interesting question as to what extent this may be due to contact with modern Indo-Aryan languages.
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> In the Sino-Tibetan family, expletive negation in "until" clauses is not restricted to languages under Indo-Aryan influence, it is also found for instance in Gyalrongic, see (A grammar of Japhug | Language Science Press (langsci-press.org) <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295>, §25.3.2.3, p.1400.
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