Postverbal negation
Edited by Olga Krasnoukhova, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels
Special issue of Studies in Language 45:3 (2021) v, 208 pp.
Olga Krasnoukhova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Olga Krasnoukhova plays a role.
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Subjects Functional linguistics | Theoretical linguistics | Typology
Articles
2021 Postverbal negation: Typology, diachrony, areality Postverbal negation, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels (eds.), pp. 499–519 | Introduction
The paper sketches the state of affairs of our understanding of postverbal negation. It departs from the typological finding that there is a cross-linguistic preference for a negator to precede the verb. Nevertheless, a sizable proportion of the world’s languages adhere to a pattern with a… read more
2019 Negation in Kulina: A double polarity swap Journal of Historical Linguistics 9:2, pp. 208–238 | Article
This study reconstructs the development of a negative existential and a negative pro-sentence in the Arawan language Kulina (Brazil-Peru). We demonstrate that the two elements forming the negative existential construction nowe (hi)ra- are involved in a double polarity swap: (i) an originally… read more
2011 Attributive possession in the languages of South America Linguistics in the Netherlands 2011, Nouwen, Rick and Marion Elenbaas (eds.), pp. 86–98 | Article