[Lingtyp] Affectionate or sympathy marking

[Sebastian Nordhoff]

On 1/12/23 16:59, Guillaume Jacques wrote:
> Dear Christian,
> 
> Japhug has an exclamative word /dɯxpa/ 'poor XXX', of nominal origin, 
> but which, exceptionally, became able to index the number and person of 
> the noun phrase it follows like a verb (however, only first and third 
> person, not second person; besides, it cannot take any TAME marker). See 
> Jacques (2021:610-611) <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/295>, as 
> in (1).

here is a more precise link pointing directly to the page in question to 
see in your browser:
https://paperhive.org/documents/items/Q7EaSdGqQ2jb?a=p:642
Best
Sebastian

> 
> (1) wo a-rɟit ra dɯxpa-nɯ ma nɯ ɯ-xtu ɯ-ŋgɯ nɯtɕu ɣɤʑu-nɯ rca
> 1sg.poss-child pl poor-pl lnk dem 3sg.poss-belly 3sg.poss-inside dem:loc 
> exist:sens-pl sfp
> 
> My poor children, they are in his [the wolf's] belly
> 
> 
> Guillaume
> 
> Le jeu. 12 janv. 2023 à 11:10, Christian Döhler 
> <christian.doehler at posteo.de <mailto:christian.doehler at posteo.de>> a écrit :
> 
>     Dear colleagues,
> 
>     I am looking for publications that address the difference between
>     (1) and (2). In (2), the English adjective /poor/ is used to signal
>     the speaker's sympathy or affection towards the dog.
> 
>      1. /The dog is waiting for its owner./
>      2. /The poor dog is waiting for its owner./
> 
>     While English (and my native German) does this by extending the
>     meaning of the adjective /poor /(and /arm/ in German), other
>     languages have special words with only that meaning. For example,
>     Komnzo /bana /is a postposed adjective that only conveys sympathy.
> 
>     /    ni bananzo namnzr karen./
>     //ni           bana=nzo        na\m/nzr    kar=en
>          1NSG    SYMP=only     1PL:NPST:IPFV/stay    village=LOC
>          'Only we poor guys stay behind in the village' (subtext: 'while
>     the others are going to the celebration in the neighbouring village')
>          (NSG = non-singular, SYMP = sympathy marker, NPST = nonpast)
> 
>     Yet other languages seem to have special verb morphology for this.
>     Van Tongeren describes this for Suki (her PhD grammar will probably
>     be available later this year).
> 
>     Pointers to more examples and publications of this are most welcome.
>     I was googling this with keywords like "sympathy", "empathy",
>     "affection", but with not much luck. So there might be a whole
>     literature on this phenomenon under different terminology. If that's
>     the case, then please excuse my ignorance./
>     /
>     Very Best,
>     Christian
> 
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