Negation

Verbal negation

This basic paradigm should be moved to the main page, with more involved paradigms and discussion of, e.g., underlying form of negation on this page. Also, what is the meaning of the forms below? Please include the plural forms with roots.

Also, isn't the negative sometimes realized as -eer? When?

final -ee is interchangeable with -eer, with the latter being seen as archaic. Elsewhere, more examination needed. Faytak 22:28, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

V negation is (in our data so far) most frequently expressed as part of a polyexponent verbal suffix. Verbal negation does not seem separable syntactically from TAM marking. An example:

Present, negative:

Gloss	Sereer	Gloss	Sereer
1SG	-im	1PL	i-[mut]-ee
2SG	-iro	2PL	nu-[mut]-ee
3SG	-ee	3PL	[mut]-ee

A distinctly inflected negative imperative also exists; see the notes on this under Imperatives and Hortatives.

Nominal negation

N negation is attested (with proclitic jege=) but this is under-researched for the time being.

What session did this come up in, I might want to test it out a little --Nico 07:23, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

this seems to just jeg-ee "it doesn't have" - the impersonal/existential "have." There doesn't seem to be nominal negation per se. Faytak 22:30, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Adjectival and Adverb "negation"

Antonymic As are formed from Vs by way of the derivational suffix -eer, e.g. ʄiʄ "to be clever"; ʄiʄu "clever"; ʄiʄeer "stupid" (067).