Suprasegmentals in negation: A cross-modal perspective. Pfau, R. To the left, to the right, and much in between: A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann, Goethe University Frankfurt, 2024. ![Suprasegmentals in negation: A cross-modal perspective [pdf]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/pdf.svg "pdf")
Paper doi abstract bibtex Katharina Hartmann, whose academic achievements are celebrated with this volume, and I have a 30-year-long history of non-linguistic and linguistic interaction. We shared an apartment in Frankfurt for five years in the 1990s while we were both affiliated with the University of Frankfurt (she as PhD, then post-doc, and I as PhD). In retrospect, it seems to me that our conversations at home only rarely revolved around linguistic matters – except for the occasional gossip, of course. Yet, there has been a noteworthy, and coincidental, overlap in research focus in the late 1990s, and it is this incident that served as inspiration for my contribution to the volume. In that period, Katharina and I had both decided to extend the scope of our linguistic interests by learning an “exotic” language: she chose Hausa, while I took advantage of the fact that German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärden-sprache, DGS) was offered for the first time at our university. Once we had acquired basic skills, it just so happened that both of us – independently of each other – selected the realization of negation in the respective language as topic of investigation. We noticed certain similarities between the two languages, which, in an odd sense of circularity, made her reference unpublished work of mine in a talk (Hartmann 1999), while I referred to that very talk in the published version of the chapter she had drawn information from (Pfau 2001). In the present chapter, I zoom in on a characteristic that the two (and many other) languages share, but which has not been discussed in much detail in the aforementioned works: the role of suprasegmentals in the expression of negation. In Section 2, I start by sketching selected properties and functions of suprasegmentals in the two modalities.2 Section 3 addresses negative particles that are specified for suprasegmental features, while Section 4 looks at verbs and how they may be suprasegmentally modified in negative contexts. The possibility of spreading of suprasegmental features is discussed in Section 5. Section 6 concludes.
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title = {Suprasegmentals in negation: A cross-modal perspective},
author = {Pfau, Roland},
journal = {To the left, to the right, and much in between: A Festschrift for Katharina Hartmann},
publisher = {Goethe University Frankfurt},
editor = {Himmelreich, A. and Hole, D. and Mursell, J.},
pages = {127--138},
year = {2024},
url = {https://www.signlab-amsterdam.nl/publications/Pfau_KH.pdf},
doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/3FX4M},
abstract = {Katharina Hartmann, whose academic achievements are celebrated with this volume, and I have a 30-year-long history of non-linguistic and linguistic interaction. We shared an apartment in Frankfurt for five years in the 1990s while we were both affiliated with the University of Frankfurt (she as PhD, then post-doc, and I as PhD). In retrospect, it seems to me that our conversations at home only rarely revolved around linguistic matters – except for the occasional gossip, of course. Yet, there has been a noteworthy, and coincidental, overlap in research focus in the late 1990s, and it is this incident that served as inspiration for my contribution to the volume. In that period, Katharina and I had both decided to extend the scope of our linguistic interests by learning an “exotic” language: she chose Hausa, while I took advantage of the fact that German Sign Language (Deutsche Gebärden-sprache, DGS) was offered for the first time at our university. Once we had acquired basic skills, it just so happened that both of us – independently of each other – selected the realization of negation in the respective language as topic of investigation. We noticed certain similarities between the two languages, which, in an odd sense of circularity, made her reference unpublished work of mine in a talk (Hartmann 1999), while I referred to that very talk in the published version of the chapter she had drawn information from (Pfau 2001).
In the present chapter, I zoom in on a characteristic that the two (and many other) languages share, but which has not been discussed in much detail in the aforementioned works: the role of suprasegmentals in the expression of negation. In Section 2, I start by sketching selected properties and functions of suprasegmentals in the two modalities.2 Section 3 addresses negative particles that are specified for suprasegmental features, while Section 4 looks at verbs and how they may be suprasegmentally modified in negative contexts. The possibility of spreading of suprasegmental features is discussed in Section 5. Section 6 concludes.}
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