[Lingtyp] historical change from a complementizer to a temporal adverbial

[Kim, Yongtaek]

Hello,


I'm Yongtaek, a linguist specializing in the contrastive analysis between Korean and Japanese at the Georgia Institute of Technology.


Currently, I have been working on the historical change of the Japanese ya-ina-ya (interrogative-NEG-interrogative) from a complementizer usage meaning 'whether or not' to the temporal adverbial-clause-linking usage meaning 'as soon as.'


After an extensive search for typological evidence, I have been unable to locate any datasets that directly address the evolutionary shift from a complementizer to a temporal adverbial function in any language.


I was just wondering if you know of any typological data where 'X-NEG-X' has changed from a complementizer ('whether or not') to a temporal adverbial ('when' or 'as soon as').


I would greatly appreciate it if you could share any such typological data.


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Yongtaek Kim, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Korean and Linguistics

Director of Korean Program

School of Modern Languages, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Swann 309

ykim791 at gatech.edu
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