Negation
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See Negative paradigms for the full attested range of subject-object agreement paradigms with negation.
Verbal negation
Verbal negation is realized as separate negative morphs of TAM suffixes:
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.
Adjectival and Adverb "negation"
Please see the section on Derived Modifiers