[Lingtyp] Affectionate or sympathy marking

[Guillaume Jacques]

Dear Christian et al,

Another example: the Sepik language Awtuw has a suffix -yaen which Feldman
(1986:66) calls "emotive", and which is used "when the speaker wants to
elicit sympathy for the referent of the suffixed pronoun".

Guillaume


Le dim. 15 janv. 2023 à 09:08, Maia Ponsonnet <maia.ponsonnet at uwa.edu.au> a
écrit :

> Hi Christian, and others,
>
>
> Thank you so much for prompting this thread, and thanks for all the
> answers  - very relevant to me too!
>
> I ended up archiving the contents (I obviously won't use them without
> explicit authorization). I've attached what I retrieved in case this is
> helpful.
>
>
> Since the thread hinted at the link between interjections and evaluative
> morphology, and has mentioned Australian languages, I'm attaching two more
> publications:
>
> Ponsonnet, Maïa. In press. Interjections, *in* Bowern,C. *ed.*, *Oxford
> Guide to Australian languages*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
> (Section 5 on expressive interjections has something on compassion.
>
>
> Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2018. Do linguistic properties influence expressive
> potential? The case of two Australian diminutives (Gunwinyguan family). *Anthropological
> Linguistics* 60(2):157-190.
> (Which compares the Dalabon diminutive clitic *=wurd *with the Rembarrnga
> diminutive suffix / interjection *(-)kanja(ng)h*. The morphonological
> status of the items is is focus.)
>
>
> And you can also look at references to compassionate interjections in
> Dalabon in Ponsonnet 2014 and and in Kriol in Ponsonnet 2020 here:
>
> https://ln5.sync.com/dl/ed922c5e0/rbvug5qx-yfzrs8sv-ubkem6ht-376fbymz
>
> https://ln5.sync.com/dl/628f40500/q7gtm7h8-j5iyinad-auufj8pk-3ivmjbrc
>
>
> Sorry to inundate you with publications, but please do not hesitate to ask
> specific questions  - this is very close to my own interests.
>
>
> Cheers and kind regards to you and every one,
>
> Maïa
>
>
> Maïa Ponsonnet
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> *De :* Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> de la part de
> Christian Döhler <christian.doehler at posteo.de>
> *Envoyé :* jeudi 12 janvier 2023 11:10
> *À :* lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org
> *Objet :* [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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