Difference between revisions of "Negation"

Revision as of 16:39, 14 December 2012

See Negative paradigms for the full attested range of subject-object agreement paradigms with negation.

Verbal negation is realized as separate negative morphs of TAM suffixes:

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

There is also an allomorph -eer of -ee', the former being seen as archaic. More investigation of this alternation is needed, however.

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

Please see the section on Derived Modifiers

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+Verbal negation is realized as separate negative morphs of TAM suffixes:
-<span style="color:#FF0000"> 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.
-<span style="color:#FF0000">  Also, isn't the negative sometimes realized as -eer? When? </span>
-: final -ee is interchangeable with -eer, with the latter being seen as archaic. Elsewhere, more examination needed. [[User:Faytak|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:
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+There is also an allomorph ''-eer'' of ''-ee', the former being seen as archaic. More investigation of this alternation is needed, however.
 A distinctly inflected negative imperative also exists; see the notes on this under [[Imperatives and Hortatives]].