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.
Anticircumstantial clauses across languages (Mauri & Sansò)
This week's paper provides a first typology of so-called anticircumstantial clauses. It defines anticircumstantial clauses (ACs) as "the negative counterpart of circumstantial clauses". The main types of AC the paper presents are negated temporal clauses ("People lost in the wild have survived for long periods without eating"), negated conditional clauses and negated reason clauses. In this TyPoW you will be able to share with us how to encode ACs in your language! Now onto the prompts:
- How are ACs expressed in your language?
- Is there a relation to the nominal domain? (E.g. syncretism with privative cases)
- What morphosyntactic properties do ACs have in your language (cf. page 3 in the paper)
- Are there any restrictions on different subjects?
- What semantic distinctions are exhibited by AC in 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!