OLAC Record oai:hughandbecky.us:0003

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Title:		Clause final negation and double negation in Northwest Kainji
Abstract:		Using morphosyntax as a diagnostic tool for untangling the varied negative marking in Northwest Kainji.
Access Rights:		Open Access
Bibliographic Citation:		Paterson, Rebecca Dow. 2021. Clause final negation and double negation in Northwest Kainji. Accepted at the 51st ACAL and presented at the 52nd Annual Conference on African Linguistics, hosted at the University of Florida.
Contributor (researcher):		Rebecca Paterson
Contributor (speaker):		Rebecca Paterson
Description:		Jaspersen cycles (van der Auwera et al. (forthc.)) have been proposed as explanations for the occurrence of double negation (DN) cross-linguistically. Beyer (2009, Volta River Basin languages), Dryer (2009, central Africa), and Idiatov (2018, northern sub-Saharan Africa) discuss contact phenomena as explanation for the proliferation of clause‑final negation (CFN) markers for SVO languages in these regions. Although Kainji is a major branch of Benue-Congo and geographically central to these regions, Kainji languages are not well documented (McGill and Blench 2012), and therefore their diverse data cannot have been taken into account. Based on three closely related Northwest Kainji languages (U̠t‑Hun/Duka [uth], C’Lela/Dakkakanci [dri], and u̱t‑Maꞌin [gel]), I propose two distinct patterns of negation for Proto‑Northwest Kainji: Clause-final Negation: SVONeg Double Negation: SNegVONeg Further, I propose that the “original” Northwest Kainji construction is CF and that DN is the secondary development. By investigating the detailed negation patterns of these closely related languages, we can see a diachronic explanation for the development of DN.
Identifier (URI):		https://hughandbecky.us/Becky-CV/talk/2021-clause-final-negation-and-double-negation-in-northwest-kainji/
Language:		English
Language (ISO639):		eng
Subject:		general_linguistics
		syntax
		Negation
		Double Negation
		Grammar
		u̱t‑MaꞌRor
Subject (OLAC):		general_linguistics
		syntax
Type (DCMI):		Event
Type (OLAC):		language_description
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Archive:		Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/hughandbecky.us
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:hughandbecky.us:0003
DateStamp:		2021-02-22
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Citation:		Rebecca Paterson (speaker); Rebecca Paterson (researcher). n.d. Rebecca Paterson's Interactive Research Portfolio.
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