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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808007703321

Titolo

Negation in Uralic languages / / editors, Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm, Beáta Wagner-Nagy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-272-6864-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (677 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Typological Studies in Language (TSL), , 0167-7373 ; ; Volume 108

Disciplina

494.5

Soggetti

Uralic languages - Negatives

Uralic languages - Grammar, Comparative

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Negation in Uralic Languages; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Abbreviations; Negation in Uralic languages - Introduction; 1. Presentation of the volume; 2. The Uralic languages; 2.1 Areal spread and sociolinguistic status; 2.2 Genealogy; 2.3 Typology; 3. Negation in typology and in Uralic; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Clausal negation; 3.3 Non-clausal negation constructions; 3.4 Other aspects of negation; 3.5 Conclusion; 4. Conclusion and acknowledgements; References; Appendix: The questionnaire; Questionnaire for describing the negation system of a (Uralic) language

General remarks and instructions The Questionnaire:; 1. The language; Constructions expressing negation (Sections 2-3); 2. Clausal negation; 2.1 Standard negation; 2.2 Negation in non-declaratives; 2.3 Negation in non-verbal clauses; 2.4 Negation in dependent/subordinate clauses; 2.5 Other clausal negation constructions; 3. Non-clausal negation; 3.1 Negative replies; 3.2 Negative indefinites and quantifiers; 3.3 Abessive/caritive/privative negation; 3.4 Other negative constructions/expressions; 4. Other aspects of negation; 4.1 The scope of negation; 4.2 Negative polarity

4.3 Case marking under negation 4.4 Reinforcing negation; 4.5 Negation and complex clauses; 4.6 Further aspects of negation;



References; Part I. Describing negation systemsin Uralic languages; Negation in Forest Enets; 1. Introduction; 2. Clausal negation; 2.1 Standard negation; 2.2 Negation in non-declaratives; 2.2.1 Negation in non-declaratives excluding the hortative and imperative moods; 2.2.2 The hortative and imperative mood

2.2.3.3 Assumptative mood. Apparently, the assumptative in -isi is yet another mood that derives from the type of reversed negation construction (i+si) that has been sketched above. Formally, -isi is closer to the assertative mood because the morpheme bou

Sommario/riassunto

More than a millenium of contact between Finno-Ugric (Mordvin, Mari and Permic) and Turkic languages (Bulgar-Chuvash and Volga Kipchak) in the Volga-Kama area have produced conditions of multilingualism and mutual linguistic influence. Lexical borrowings have been well studied and offer a starting point for exploring less treated aspects such as phonological and syntactic features. The present paper scrutinizes four possible cases of linguistic interference between Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages in the Volga basin in standard negation and prohibitives.