‘Until’ constructions and expletive negation in Huasteca Nahuatl

IF 0.5 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Jesús Olguín Martínez
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A number of works have explored expletive negation in clause-linkage constructions. Most of them have shown that this type of negative marker can be omitted from the adverbial clause without affecting the interpretation holding between clauses. The study shows, based on the analysis of natural discourse data, that expletive negation has developed an intriguing discourse function in three types of ‘until’ constructions in Huasteca Nahuatl: ‘not…until’ constructions, scalar additive ‘until’ constructions, and beginning-to-end constructions. When the negative marker amo appears in the ‘until’ clause, the proposition should be characterized as expressing surprise. When it is absent from the ‘until’ clause, the proposition does not express surprise. This function of the expletive negative marker amo does not appear in elicited sentences, but only in spontaneous speech. It is proposed that Huasteca Nahuatl developed expletive negation in ‘not…until’ constructions due to contact with Spanish. However, the development of expletive negation in scalar additive ‘until’ constructions and beginning-to-end constructions is an internally motivated development in Huasteca Nahuatl that cannot be attributed to Spanish.
瓦斯特卡纳瓦特尔语中的 "直到 "结构和祈使否定句
许多研究都探讨了分句连接结构中的祈使句否定。其中大多数研究表明,这类否定标记可以从副词分句中省略,而不影响分句之间的解释。本研究通过对自然话语数据的分析表明,在瓦斯特卡纳瓦特尔语的三类 "直到 "结构中,消耗性否定具有耐人寻味的话语功能:"不是......直到 "结构、标量加法 "直到 "结构和从头至尾结构。当否定标记 amo 出现在 "直到 "分句中时,命题应被定性为表示惊讶。如果 "直到 "分句中没有否定词 amo,命题就不表示惊奇。否定语气标记 amo 的这一功能不出现在诱导句中,而只出现在自发语中。有人认为,由于与西班牙语的接触,瓦斯特卡纳瓦特尔语在 "不是......直到 "结构中发展出了语气否定。然而,在标量相加的 "直到 "结构和从头至尾结构中发展出消耗性否定是瓦斯特卡纳瓦特尔语的内部发展,不能归因于西班牙语。
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期刊介绍: Studies in Language provides a forum for the discussion of issues in contemporary linguistics from discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspectives. Areas of central concern are: discourse grammar; syntactic, morphological and semantic universals; pragmatics; grammaticalization and grammaticalization theory; and the description of problems in individual languages from a discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological perspective. Special emphasis is placed on works which contribute to the development of discourse-pragmatic, functional, and typological theory and which explore the application of empirical methodology to the analysis of grammar.
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