[Lingtyp] Expletive NEG and scalar additive 'until' clauses

[Jesus Francisco Olguin Martinez]

Dear all,

I was wondering if you know any languages in which expletive negation
appears in scalar additive constructions, as in (1).

Huasteca Nahuatl

(1)       *huankino         hualah-ki                     kuatochi*,


            and.then          come-pfv                      bunny

            ‘The bunny came to the party,



*hua      asta      amo   **hualah-ki      koxua-li*.

and      until     neg      come-pfv       turtle-abs

                and even the turtle.’

The expletive negative marker in (1) seems to have an interesting discourse
function in scalar additive 'until' clauses, and it seems that other
Mesoamerican languages have developed similar constructions due to language
contact.

The fact that temporal ‘until’ markers may develop into scalar additive
operators has not gone unnoticed (König 1991; Jasionytė-Mikučionienė 2019:
293). However, to the best of my knowledge, scalar additive ‘until’ clauses
with expletive negation seem to be rare cross-linguistically.

Best,

*References*
Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, Erika. 2019. Subordinating conjunctions as
discourse markers in Lithuanian. *Corpus Pragmatics* 3. 285–301

König, Ekkehard. 1991. *The meaning of focus particles: A comparative
perspective*. London: Routledge.

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