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?
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:
| 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.
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).
