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

[Kim, Yongtaek]

Dear all,

I apologize for writing the wrong recipients when forwarding the email from Kofi to my co-researchers.

Sincerely,

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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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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] historical change from a complementizer to a temporal adverbial

以下の彼の本の１０．５．７に出ている’ＷＥ’はＡｄｖｅｒｂｉａｌとComplementizerのBorderline caseなので、役に立つと思います。


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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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From: Kofi Yakpo <kofi at hku.hk>
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Subject: Re: [Lingtyp] historical change from a complementizer to a temporal adverbial

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.

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Kofi
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On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 7:37 AM Kim, Yongtaek <ykim791 at gatech.edu<mailto: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.


___________________________________________________

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<mailto:ykim791 at gatech.edu>

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