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标题：The morphologization of negation constructions in Nalca (Mek, Tanah Papua), or, how nothing easily moves to the middle of a word
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作者：Bernhard Wälchli ; Bernhard Wälchli
期刊名称：Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
印刷版ISSN：0024-3949
出版年度：2018
卷号：56
期号：6
页码：1413-1461
DOI：10.1515/ling-2018-0027
语种：English
出版社：Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG
摘要：AbstractThe Mek language Nalca has undergone a rapid synthetization of verbal negation by way of two successive stages of asymmetric negation, the first one involving referential zeroing with a verbal noun, the second one reintroducing person marking with an auxiliary in analogy to non-verbal predicates. This development can be traced in texts in the more conservative closely related Mek language Eipo. Referential zeroing originally had the connotation of absolute negation (more than the denial of one specific event). As Nalca negation was integrated into inflectional morphology, it developed some of the hallmarks of autonomous morphology – morphomes and empty morphs. Nalca negation illustrates how grammaticalization and analogy can go hand-in-hand. The fusion of verbal negation is a case of the morphologization of a construction which does not occur in isolation but in concert with other similar processes, together entailing a fragmentation of negation marking. Finally, the Nalca development shows that cases of fusion of verbal negation must be taken into account when dealing with the interplay of existential negation and verbal negation in terms of cyclic processes.
关键词：KeywordsnegationNalcaMek languagesexistentialverbal nounprohibitivemorphomesynthesisgrammaticalizationanalogyhistorical linguistics