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

[Kofi Yakpo]

Dear Yongtaek,

In the African Caribbean English-lexifier Creole Pichi, spoken in
Equatorial Guinea, and probably in related varieties in the region
(Nigerian Pidgin, Cameroon Pidgin), the polyfunctional subordinator 'we'
(possibly sourced from English 'where', although this is not sure),
functions as a relativizer and adverbial (chiefly temporal) subordinator,
and may additionally function as a complementizer to complement-taking main
verbs like 'hear', 'feel sorry' etc, though the latter use is less frequent.

See this book <https://langsci-press.org/catalog/book/85>, sec. 10.5.7,
10.6, 10.7.

Best wishes,
Kofi
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 7:37 AM Kim, Yongtaek <ykim791 at gatech.edu> wrote:

> 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.
>
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>
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>
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