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.
On the typology of negative concord (van der Auwera & Van Alsenoy)
This week's paper was once again submitted by u/Slorany and talks about negative concord in various languages. Negative concord refers to the phenomenon in which a semantically single negation is expressed both by a clause level negator and by a negative adverb, pronoun or determiner. This paper gives an example from English: "I can't get no satisfaction"; here, n't represents the clausal level negator and no is the negative determiner. Even though there are two negation markers, the sentence is not negated twice, but only once. As with previous TyPoWs, our topic today is very specific. Thus, I have decided that in this thread you can talk about everything and anything that got to do with negation! Nevertheless I will give some prompts to guide you a bit. Here they are:
- Does your language exhibit any kind of negative concord?
- How does negation generally work in your language?
- Has your language gone through Jespersen's Cycle? How has it affected the general morphosyntax of your language?
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!