Standard negation in Awa Pit: From synchrony to diachrony

diachrony of negation; Jespersen's Cycle; language contact; negation marking; South American languages; standard negation; Language and Linguistics; Linguistics and Language

Abstract :

[en] This study deals with clausal negation in Awa Pit, a Barbacoan language spoken in South America. By bringing together the data on negation from different varieties of the language, we present an analysis of synchronic patterns of negation marking. Based on the variation we suggest a number of innovations in the negation system, for which we put forward diachronic scenarios. Some innovations are likely to be contact-induced, whereas others are products of language-internal diachronic processes. The latter involve mechanisms associated with a classical 'Jespersen Cycle'. However, Awa Pit offers us very non-classical Jespersen's Cycles- A t best. The case of Awa Pit is instructive as some of the scenarios that we suggest are likely to be relevant for other languages or languages families.

Disciplines :

Languages & linguistics

Author, co-author :

Krasnoukhova, Olga ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de langues modernes : linguistique, littérature et traduction > Linguistique synchronique anglaise ; Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Van Der Auwera, Johan; Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Language :

English

Title :

Standard negation in Awa Pit: From synchrony to diachrony

Publication date :

November 2019

Journal title :

Folia Linguistica

ISSN :

0165-4004

eISSN :

1614-7308

Publisher :

De Gruyter Mouton

Volume :

Issue :

Pages :

439 - 474

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Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/flih.2019.53.issue-s40-2/flih-2019-0017/flih-2019-0017.xml

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Our thanks are due to Martine Bruil and Simeon Floyd for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the paper, and to Pieter Muysken, Connie Dickinson and Geny Gonzales Castaño, all of whom have shared their knowledge on the Barbacoan languages with us. We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers and the editors for helping us improve the paper. The study has been carried out with the financial support of Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO).

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