PHASAL POLARITY IN ABAZA

Evgeniya Klyagina () and Anastasia Panova ()
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Evgeniya Klyagina: National Research University Higher School of Economics
Anastasia Panova: National Research University Higher School of Economics

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Abstract: Phasal polarity (PhP) is a cross-linguistic category which includes such values as ???????, ??? ???, s???? and ?? ??????. This paper discusses morphologically bound markers of phasal polarity in Abaza, a polysynthetic Northwest Caucasian language. We show that the Abaza PhP affixes ?’a ‘already’, -s (+ negation) ‘not yet’, -rk??a ‘still’ and -? (+ negation) ‘no longer’ are partly incorporated into the TAM system and that for at least some of them it is unclear whether they belong to the domain of phasal polarity or the phasal domain in a narrow sense (i.e. including values ?????, ????????, etc.). We also present some preliminary data concerning the obligatoriness of Abaza PhP markers and their frequencies in texts.

Keywords: phasal polarity; verbal morphology; Abaza; Northwest Caucasian; polysynthesis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2019
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Published in WP BRP Series: Linguistics / LNG, December 2019, pages 1-24

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