Comments on: Negative Morphemes http://blog.wals.info/negative-morphemes/ WALS Online Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:02:07 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Matthew Dryer http://blog.wals.info/negative-morphemes/comment-page-1/#comment-46366 Matthew Dryer Wed, 27 Apr 2011 18:34:45 +0000 #comment-46366 This is exactly how I code these two languages and how they will appear in the 2011 online edition. These errors are due to the general error mentioned on this page whereby 40 or so languages with double negation were incorrectly coded in the original WALS due to a programming error. This is exactly how I code these two languages and how they will appear in the 2011 online edition. These errors are due to the general error mentioned on this page whereby 40 or so languages with double negation were incorrectly coded in the original WALS due to a programming error.

]]> By: Ives Goddard http://blog.wals.info/negative-morphemes/comment-page-1/#comment-46359 Ives Goddard Wed, 27 Apr 2011 14:21:13 +0000 #comment-46359 Menominee (Bloomfield 1962) and Passamaquoddy-Maliseet (D.F. Sherwood, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Verb Morphology, Ottawa, 1986) both have double negation, with a negative particle and a negative suffix. Menominee (Bloomfield 1962) and Passamaquoddy-Maliseet (D.F. Sherwood, Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Verb Morphology, Ottawa, 1986) both have double negation, with a negative particle and a negative suffix.

]]> By: Matthew Dryer http://blog.wals.info/negative-morphemes/comment-page-1/#comment-7152 Matthew Dryer Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:12:48 +0000 #comment-7152 Due to a programming error, both the 2005 edition (the hard atlas) and the 2008 online edition severely undercounted the number of languages with double negation. Approximately 40 languages with double negation were incorrectly classified in one of the other types, though they were classified "correctly" in the sense that languages that employed double negation with two negative particles were classified among languages with negative particles and languages that employed double negation with two negative affixes were classified among languages with negative affixes. This will be corrected in the 2009 online edition. Also, the chapter text for the 2008 online edition incorrectly reversed the labels for the second and third feature values (negative particles and negative auxiliary verbs). Due to a programming error, both the 2005 edition (the hard atlas) and the 2008 online edition severely undercounted the number of languages with double negation. Approximately 40 languages with double negation were incorrectly classified in one of the other types, though they were classified “correctly” in the sense that languages that employed double negation with two negative particles were classified among languages with negative particles and languages that employed double negation with two negative affixes were classified among languages with negative affixes. This will be corrected in the 2009 online edition.

Also, the chapter text for the 2008 online edition incorrectly reversed the labels for the second and third feature values (negative particles and negative auxiliary verbs).

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