Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
A typology of frustrative marking in Amazonian languages (Overall)
Today's TyPotW is all about frustratives. Frustratives are a cross-linguistic typological category which marks that an event happened 'in vain' or, to word it more scientifically, one which expresses the non-realization of some expected outcome implied by the proposition expressed in the marked clause. If you want to know more about this, check out the paper from above. Now onto today's prompts:
- Does your language have frustratives?
- If so, how do they work? What's their semantic scope, i.e. what meanings do they cover?
- If you considered diachronics while constructing your language, how did the frustrative marker evolve?
- Are there other non-standard expressions used in your language that come close to frustratives?
- If your language doesn't have frustratives, how do you express contexts often marked by them?
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So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next saturday, and happy conlanging!