[Lingtyp] Novel future markers banned from negative contexts

[Eleanor Coghill]

Dear Omri and List,


The North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic future with bəd-, b- cannot be combined with a negator - although it's not particulary new, being found already in the earliest texts from 400 years ago. It is most likely grammaticalized from the verb bʔy I to want.


all the best


Eleanor


Prof. Eleanor Coghill
Dept. of Linguistics and Philology
Uppsala University, Sweden.
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Sent: 22 November 2023 09:32:44
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Subject: [Lingtyp] Novel future markers banned from negative contexts

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.

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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