Abstract
Andi (East Caucasian) features a verb form that marks an event that is (still) not happening, contrary to the speaker’s expectation (i.e. ‘Still Not’ Present). This form is unusual for several reasons. First, forms of this kind are not typical for the language family. Second, while it conveys negative semantics, the form does not contain negation marking, even though segmentally it is rather heavy in comparison to other synthetic tenses. Third, to our knowledge grammatical ‘still not’ expressions are typologically uncommon. The paper describes the semantics and morphosyntactic properties of the ‘Still Not’ Present and suggests a plausible grammaticalization source by comparing dialects and closely related languages. We also try to match the data to typological categories like phasal polarity.
Acknowledgments
The authors wish to thank thank Mesedu Alisultanova, Chopan Gaziev, Aligadzhi Magomedov and Kazbek Magomedov for their native speaker judgements on Andi, the three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments, Zaynab Alieva, Marina Chumakina and Michael Daniel for providing their expert knowledge, and to Steven Kaye for fruitful discussions and the help with the English of the paper.
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Research funding: Support from the Basic Research Program of the National Research University Higher School of Economics is gratefully acknowledged by Timur Maisak.
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