[Lingtyp] Grammaticalised emotional states

[Jocelyn Aznar]

Dear Ponrawee Prasertsom,

I would say interjections are mostly used for this usage of expressing 
emotions toward a situation. I'm not sure though that interjections fit 
your definition of "grammatically encoded", in particular the bit "not 
easily admit new items", but it would fit mine :)

Best regards,
Jocelyn

Le 06/03/2023 à 09:29, Ponrawee Prasertsom a écrit :
> Dear typologists,
> 
> There has been claims in the literature (Cinque, 2013) that (at least 
> some) speakers' emotional states toward a situation such as "fear" and 
> "worry" are not grammatically encoded in any language, where 
> "grammatically encoded" means not encoded by closed-class items 
> ("closed-class" in a morphosyntactic sense: a group of morphemes that 
> occur in the same slot that do not easily admit new items and/or have 
> few members).
> I am interested in examples of any grammaticalized marker for any 
> emotional states (not necessarily "fear" and "worry"). I am interested 
> in both markers of 1) the /speaker/'s emotional states toward the 
> situation being expressed as well as 2) of the /subject/'s emotional 
> states toward the situation. The class of the item could be bound 
> (clitics, affixes) or free (particles, auxiliary verbs) as long as it 
> could be shown to be (somewhat) closed. I am only interested in markers 
> specialised for specific emotions, and not, e.g., impoliteness markers 
> that could be used when the speaker is angry.
> 
> The "(un)happy about the verb" infixes /-ei/- and -/äng-/ from the 
> constructed language Na'vi would be the paradigm example of what I am 
> looking for if they actually existed in a natural language.
> 
> A potential example is Japanese /-yagatte, /which some have told me have 
> grammaticalised into an affix encoding anger about the action. I'm also 
> looking into whether there is evidence that this is actually part of a 
> closed-class and would appreciate any pointers/more information.
> 
> Thank you very much in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Ponrawee Prasertsom
> 
> PhD student
> Centre for Language Evolution
> University of Edinburgh
> 
> *References:*
> Cinque, G. (2013). Cognition, universal grammar, and typological 
> generalizations. Lingua, 130, 50–65. 
> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.007 
> <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.007>
> 
> 
> 
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