[Lingtyp] Grammaticalised emotional states

Tue Mar 7 05:37:06 UTC 2023

Dear all,

Thank all for the responses so far.

Dr Aznar -- Thank you for the suggestion! I am aware that interjections can
be used for expressing emotional states, though as you said I'm a little
reluctant about their status.

Prof Nordhoff and others -- Thank you for bringing me attention to
timitives/apprehensionals. I was not familiar with these before. To answer
Prof Nordhoff, I am interested in both cases, although the realis sense is
probably more interesting as the irrealis one seems to be a flipside of the
more well known desideratives.

Prof Ramat -- Thank you very much for the paper. This will certainly help
with how I think about linguistic expressions of feelings.

Prof Giomi -- Thank you! I was aware of frustratives, but I did not know
that there is a second sense in which it is evaluative (i.e., literally
encoding frustration, rather than simply actions failing to complete) as
well. I will look into it, and I would also be interested to be put in
contact with your colleague.

Patrick and Prof Tauber -- Thank you. I am aware of mirativity; I think
this is what motivated some to ask about grammaticalised worries (or other
emotional states) as they also seem to be a universal emotion.

These have been very helpful. If anyone else has more pointers, I would
appreciate them.

Best regards,
Ponrawee

On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 11:27 PM TasakuTsunoda <tasakutsunoda at nifty.com>
wrote:

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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Warrongo (northeast Australia) has the conjugational category
> “apprehensional” (Tsunoda 2011: 286-288).
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> “The apprehensional predominantly indicates that an event might occur, and
> it often implies that the event is unpleasant” (Tsunoda 2011: 286).
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> “The apprehensional can be used in the subordinate clause of two types of
> complex sentences: ‘lest … should’ (4.17) and ‘X is afraid that’ (4.18.1)”
> (Tsunoda 2011: 287).
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> For 4.17, please see Tsunoda (2011: 614-618).
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> For 4.18.1, please see Tsunoda (2011: 619-621).
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> Tsunoda, Tasaku. 2011. *A grammar of Warrongo*. Berlin & New York: De
> Gruyter Mouton.
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> Best wishes,
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> Tasaku Tsunoda
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> *日付**: *2023年3月6日 月曜日 18:03
> *宛先**: *Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *<lingtyp at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *件名**: *Re: [Lingtyp] Grammaticalised emotional states
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> Dear Ponrawee,
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> You might be interested in apprehensional epistemics, which express a
> negative subjective stance towards a possibility, and which are sometimes
> described as ‚fear‘ markers.
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> Some references, with no claim as to their comprehensiveness:
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> Dobrushina, Nina. 2006. Grammaticheskie formy i konstrukcii so znacheniem
> opasenija i predosterezhenija [Grammatical forms and constructions with the
> meaning of fear and caution]. Voprosy jazykoznanija 2. 28–67.
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> Lichtenberk, Frantisek. 1995. Apprehensional epistemics. In Joan Bybee &
> Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), Modality in grammar and discourse, 293–327.
> Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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> Vuillermet, Marine. 2018. Grammatical fear morphemes in Ese Ejja. Making
> the case for a morphosemantic apprehensional domain. Studies in Language 42(1).
> 256–293.
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> In addition, a 2018 special issue of Studies in Language entitled
> „Morphology and emotions across the world’s languages“ (
> https://benjamins.com/catalog/sl.42.1) is surely highly relevant to what
> you are looking for.
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> Best,
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> Bastian
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> Am 06.03.2023 um 09:29 schrieb Ponrawee Prasertsom <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com
> >:
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> Dear typologists,
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Thank you very much in advance.
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> Best regards,
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> Ponrawee Prasertsom
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> PhD student
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> Centre for Language Evolution
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> University of Edinburgh
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> *References:*
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> Cinque, G. (2013). Cognition, universal grammar, and typological
> generalizations. Lingua, 130, 50–65.
> https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2012.10.007
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