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Phasal Polarity In Abaza

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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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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.

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  • Evgeniya Klyagina & Anastasia Panova, 2019. "Phasal Polarity In Abaza," HSE Working papers WP BRP 89/LNG/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hig:wpaper:89/lng/2019
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    Keywords

    phasal polarity; verbal morphology; Abaza; Northwest Caucasian; polysynthesis;
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