[Lingtyp] Novel future markers banned from negative contexts

[Ian Joo]

Dear Omri Amiraz,

Mongolian future tense -na/-ne is not used in negative.

Example:

Би явна 
bi yav-na
I go-FUT
'I will go.'

But:

Би явахгуй
bi yav-ax-guy
I go-INF-NEG
'I won't go.'

May Mongolists correct me if I'm wrong, as my knowledge on Mongolian is basic.

From Japan,
Ian

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JOO, IAN 朱易安
Lecturer 助教
Faculty of International Studies 国際学部
Nagoya University of Commerce and Business 名古屋商科大学
Nisshin, Aichi, Japan 愛知県日進市
https://ianjoo.github.io
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> 22/11/2023 오후 5:33, Omri Amiraz <Omri.Amiraz at mail.huji.ac.il> 작성:
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> Dear colleagues,
> 
> Eitan Grossman and I are writing a paper about newly-grammaticalized future markers that are banned from negative contexts, which results in paradigmatic asymmetry where certain grammatical distinctions (e.g., remoteness) are absent in the negative.
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> We are currently aware of a handful of such cases (Tigre, Coptic, Palestinian Arabic, Quebec French, Tok Pisin), and we’d be happy to know if anyone knows of other relevant cases.
> 
> Also, Bybee et al. (1994: 271) make the tentative claim that novel future constructions are often immediate futures: “[…] we interpreted primary future grams with immediate future as a use as younger than grams whose future use was simple future; that is, we were in effect suggesting that, for primary futures, the use immediate future is diagnostic of a simple future at an earlier stage of its development. Although we are not aware of strong historical evidence attesting the generalization of an immediate future to a general future gram (but see Fleischman 1983 for a claim that this occurs), there are both formal and semantic indications of the youth of immediate futures.”
> 
> Does anyone know of a more recent study that tried to test this hypothesis?
> 
> Omri Amiraz
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