[Lingtyp] Affectionate or sympathy marking

[Jess Tauber]

I have to amend my previous statement about Yahgan. There IS a form
kaiakaiiu:a (colon marks tenseness of the vowel preceding it) meaning
'alas, oh, dear me, what a pity'. But it is not appended to any nominal,
and appears to be only found clause-initially (at least in the texts I've
seen).

Jess Tauber

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 2:34 PM <brigitte.pakendorf at cnrs.fr> wrote:

> Dear Christian,
>
>
>
> in addition to having numerous diminutive and augmentative morphemes, the
> Lamunkhin dialect of Even has 2 verbal suffixes that express compassion
> and/or endearment.
>
>
>
> See section 2.2.3 in Pakendorf (2017), Lamunkhin Even evaluative
> morphology in cross-linguistic comparison,* Morphology* 27:123–158 which
> you can find here: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01960459v1. (If
> there’s a glitch with the link, let me know and I’ll send you the pdf-file.)
>
>
>
> Best,
>
>
>
> Brigitte
>
>
>
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> *From:* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> *On Behalf Of
> *Christian Döhler
> *Sent:* 12 January 2023 11:10
> *To:* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Subject:* [Lingtyp] Affectionate or sympathy marking
>
>
>
> 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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