Negation in Uralic Languages

Editors

Matti Miestamo | University of Helsinki

Anne Tamm | Central European University and Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church

Beáta Wagner-Nagy | University of Hamburg

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The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting negation in 17 languages. Most of them are endangered. The chapters highlight negative auxiliary verbs—the special Uralic feature—and their ways of combining with the rich inventory of other negators in different types of clauses, as well as negative replies, negative indefinites, abessives/caritives/privatives, scope, polarity and emphatic negation. Selected aspects of negation, such as negative indefinites, negation of non-verbal predicates and information structure, are discussed in more detail in five further chapters. The book brings new typologically informed perspectives on negation in the Uralic family, and it provides valuable data and insights for any linguist working on negation.

[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.108

Table of Contents

Abbreviations | pp. vii–x

Negation in Uralic languages – Introduction

Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy | pp. 1–42

PART 1. Describing negation systems in Uralic languages

Negation in Forest Enets

Florian Siegl | pp. 43–74

Negation in Tundra Nenets

Nikolett Mus | pp. 75–102

Negation in Nganasan

Valentin Gusev | pp. 103–132

Negation in Selkup

Beáta Wagner-Nagy | pp. 133–158

Negation in Eastern Khanty

Andrey Filchenko | pp. 159–190

Negation in Mansi

Katalin Sipőcz | pp. 191–218

Negation in Hungarian

Katalin É. Kiss | pp. 219–238

Negation in Komi

Arja Hamari | pp. 239–264

Negation in Udmurt

Svetlana Edygarova | pp. 265–292

Negation in Erzya

Arja Hamari and Niina Aasmäe | pp. 293–324

Negation in Mari

Sirkka Saarinen | pp. 325–352

Negation in Skolt Saami

Matti Miestamo and Eino Koponen | pp. 353–376

Negation in South Saami

Rogier Blokland and Nobufumi Inaba | pp. 377–398

Negation in Estonian

Anne Tamm | pp. 399–432

Negation in Livonian

Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu and Tiit-Rein Viitso | pp. 433–456

Negation in Finnish

Maria Vilkuna | pp. 457–486

Negation in contemporary Votic

Fedor Rozhanskiy and Elena Markus | pp. 487–516

PART 2. More specific aspects of negation in Uralic languages

Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages

Lauren Van Alsenoy and Johan van der Auwera | pp. 517–546

Special negators in the Uralic languages: Synchrony, diachrony and interaction with standard negation

Ljuba N. Veselinova | pp. 547–600

The privative derivational suffix in Hungarian: A new account

Ferenc Kiefer | pp. 601–614

Negation in Eastern Khanty narratives from the perspective of information flow

Sachiko Sosa | pp. 615–632

Mutual influences in negative patterns between Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area

Gianguido Manzelli | pp. 633–652

Index | pp. 653–668

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