Full Description
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.
Contents
1. Abbreviations; 2. Negation in Uralic languages - Introduction (by Miestamo, Matti); 3. PART 1. Describing negation systems in Uralic languages; 4. Negation in Forest Enets (by Siegl, Florian); 5. Negation in Tundra Nenets (by Mus, Nikolett); 6. Negation in Nganasan (by Gusev, Valentin); 7. Negation in Selkup (by Wagner-Nagy, Beata); 8. Negation in Eastern Khanty (by Filchenko, Andrey); 9. Negation in Mansi (by Sipocz, Katalin); 10. Negation in Hungarian (by Kiss, Katalin E.); 11. Negation in Komi (by Hamari, Arja); 12. Negation in Udmurt (by Edygarova, Svetlana); 13. Negation in Erzya (by Hamari, Arja); 14. Negation in Mari (by Saarinen, Sirkka); 15. Negation in Skolt Saami (by Miestamo, Matti); 16. Negation in South Saami (by Blokland, Rogier); 17. Negation in Estonian (by Tamm, Anne); 18. Negation in Livonian (by Metslang, Helle); 19. Negation in Finnish (by Vilkuna, Maria); 20. Negation in contemporary Votic (by Ivanovich Rozhanskiy, Fedor); 21. PART 2. More specific aspects of negation in Uralic languages; 22. Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages (by Alsenoy, Lauren Van); 23. Special negators in the Uralic languages: Synchrony, diachrony and interaction with standard negation (by Veselinova, Ljuba N.); 24. The privative derivational suffix in Hungarian: A new account (by Kiefer, Ferenc); 25. Negation in Eastern Khanty narratives from the perspective of information flow (by Sosa, Sachiko); 26. Mutual influences in negative patterns between Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area (by Manzelli, Gianguido); 27. Index
