none 10.1075/tsl.108.21kie John Benjamins Publishing Company John Benjamins Publishing Company 1757 76265112 1921748 1421459 202507031741000056 10.1075 2025-07-03T15:42:48Z 2015-06-26T13:26:56Z 1 0167-7373 10.1075/tsl https://benjamins.com/ catalog/tsl Matti Miestamo University of Helsinki https://ror.org/040af2s02 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9801-9030 Anne Tamm Central European University and Károli Gáspár University of the Hungarian Reformed Church https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5804-0174 Beáta Wagner-Nagy University of Hamburg https://ror.org/00g30e956 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. 108 6 24 2015 6 26 2015 9789027206893 9789027268648 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam 10.1075/tsl.108 http://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027268648 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.108/html https://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/9789027268648.pdf Ferenc Kiefer Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences https://ror.org/02ks8qq67 A new account The paper is devoted to the examination of the distribution and the productivity of the privative suffix in Hungarian. It is shown that the privative suffix can be attached productively to nouns referring to concrete objects but it is blocked in the case of abstract nouns formed by means of the suffix - sÁg. Moreover, deverbal agent and actions nouns do not admit the privative suffix either. As for adjectival bases, normally the privative suffix cannot be attached to monomorphemic adjectives, some derived adjectives, however, do admit neg-suffixation though the derivation is not productive. Finally, verbal bases can be affixed by the privative suffix provided the base is transitive. Intransitive and stative bases do not take the privative suffix. Since the privative suffix attaches directly to the verbal base, no derived verb can enter into the derivational process. Lexicalized cases are left out of consideration throughout the paper. A distinction is made between lexical, actual and potential words. It is pointed out that German contact may have contributed to the productivity of certain derivation types. Furthermore, negative affixation can be found in all languages of the Uralic language family. 6 24 2015 6 26 2015 601 614 10.1075/tsl.108.21kie https://benjamins.com/catalog/tsl.108.21kie https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1075/tsl.108.21kie/html 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195396683.013.0014 10.1017/s0022226703242067 A magyar fosztó- és tagadóképző Varga, Márta 2006 10.1515/9783110172782.2 Sprachtheorie und germanistische Linguistik Kiefer 11 2 195 2001 The negative suffix in Hungarian 10.3406/rbph.2010.7801 Strukturális magyar nyelvtan, 1: Mondattan Komlósy 299 1992 Régensek és vonzatok Word-Formation. An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe Laakso The history of word-formation in Uralic Produktivitás és analógia a szóképzésben: Elvek és esetek Ladányi 2007 Un-Affigierung im Lexikon. Theorie des Lexikons 1 Lenz 1991 Affix-Negation und Dualität. Theorie des Lexikons 45 Lenz 1993 10.1207/s15516709cog1104_2