[Lingtyp] Grammaticalised emotional states

PONSONNET Maia maia.ponsonnet at cnrs.fr
Tue Mar 7 08:50:17 UTC 2023


Dear Ponwaree, Jocelyn and all,


Marine Vuillermet and I were just discussing the complexities of auto-citation and auto-promotion in the backstage ;-).


So I'm taking this opportunity to mention that my 2013 thesis is actually also a published volume :

Ponsonnet, Maïa. 2014. The language of emotions: The case of Dalabon (Australia). Benjamins.

https://ln5.sync.com/dl/ed922c5e0/rbvug5qx-yfzrs8sv-ubkem6ht-376fbymz


I would personnally lean towards putting interjections with the lexicon, but maybe that's just me...


Kind regards,

Maïa



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Dear Ponrawee Prasertsom,

I realized that I should have pointed towards some references on this
aspect.

As Ponsonnet and Vuillermet's edited volume on "Morphology and emotions
across the world's languages" has been already been mentioned, but
Ponsonnet also worked on interjections and emotions :

PONSONNET, Maïa, et al. The Language of Emotions in Dalabon (Northern
Australia). 2013. Thèse de doctorat. Australian National University, p.123.

I like Norrick's proposition of interjectional phrase:
Norrick, N. R. (2011). Interjections. Pragmatics of society, 243-292.

Best regards,
Jocelyn

Le 07/03/2023 à 06:37, Ponrawee Prasertsom a écrit :
> 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
> <mailto:tasakutsunoda at nifty.com>> wrote:
>
>                                                2023/03/07____
>
>     Dear Colleagues,____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Warrongo (northeast Australia) has the conjugational category
>     “apprehensional” (Tsunoda 2011: 286-288).____
>
>     __ __
>
>     “The apprehensional predominantly indicates that an event might
>     occur, and it often implies that the event is unpleasant” (Tsunoda
>     2011: 286).____
>
>     __ __
>
>     “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).____
>
>     __ __
>
>     For 4.17, please see Tsunoda (2011: 614-618).____
>
>     For 4.18.1, please see Tsunoda (2011: 619-621).____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Tsunoda, Tasaku. 2011. /A grammar of Warrongo/. Berlin & New York:
>     De Gruyter Mouton.____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Best wishes,____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Tasaku Tsunoda____
>
>     *__ __*
>
>     *__ __*
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>     *件名**: *Re: [Lingtyp] Grammaticalised emotional states____
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>     __ __
>
>     Dear Ponrawee,____
>
>     __ __
>
>     You might be interested in apprehensional epistemics, which express
>     a negative subjective stance towards a possibility, and which are
>     sometimes described as ‚fear‘ markers.____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Some references, with no claim as to their comprehensiveness:____
>
>     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. ____
>
>     Lichtenberk, Frantisek. 1995. Apprehensional epistemics. In Joan
>     Bybee & Suzanne Fleischman (eds.), Modality in grammar and
>     discourse, 293–327. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.____
>
>     Vuillermet, Marine. 2018. Grammatical fear morphemes in Ese Ejja.
>     Making the case for a morphosemantic apprehensional domain. Studies
>     in Language 42(1). 256–293. ____
>
>     __ __
>
>     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
>     <https://benjamins.com/catalog/sl.42.1>) is surely highly relevant
>     to what you are looking for.____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Best,____
>
>     Bastian____
>
>
>
>     ____
>
>         Am 06.03.2023 um 09:29 schrieb Ponrawee Prasertsom
>         <ponrawee.pra at gmail.com <mailto:ponrawee.pra at gmail.com>>:____
>
>         __ __
>
>         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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