Negation in Nganasan
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Valentin Gusev
Abstract
In Nganasan, verbal negation is expressed by the negative auxiliary ńi-, which takes all the inflectional suffixes from the main verb. There are two more negative markers: a constituent negator ńintuu and a predicative negator ďaŋku; the former is also used to negate attributive predications, and the latter negates existential and possessive predications. These two markers also serve as negative replies. Besides this, verbs have a dedicated abessive (‘not yet’) form, and nouns can take a caritive marker. There exist no dedicated negative pronouns; indefinites with emphatic markers are used instead.
Abstract
In Nganasan, verbal negation is expressed by the negative auxiliary ńi-, which takes all the inflectional suffixes from the main verb. There are two more negative markers: a constituent negator ńintuu and a predicative negator ďaŋku; the former is also used to negate attributive predications, and the latter negates existential and possessive predications. These two markers also serve as negative replies. Besides this, verbs have a dedicated abessive (‘not yet’) form, and nouns can take a caritive marker. There exist no dedicated negative pronouns; indefinites with emphatic markers are used instead.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Negation in Uralic languages – Introduction 1
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PART 1. Describing negation systems in Uralic languages
- Negation in Forest Enets 45
- Negation in Tundra Nenets 75
- Negation in Nganasan 103
- Negation in Selkup 133
- Negation in Eastern Khanty 159
- Negation in Mansi 191
- Negation in Hungarian 219
- Negation in Komi 239
- Negation in Udmurt 265
- Negation in Erzya 293
- Negation in Mari 325
- Negation in Skolt Saami 353
- Negation in South Saami 377
- Negation in Estonian 399
- Negation in Livonian 433
- Negation in Finnish 457
- Negation in contemporary Votic 487
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PART 2. More specific aspects of negation in Uralic languages
- Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages 519
- Special negators in the Uralic languages 547
- The privative derivational suffix in Hungarian 601
- Negation in Eastern Khanty narratives from the perspective of information flow 615
- Mutual influences in negative patterns between Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area 633
- Index 653
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Abbreviations vii
- Negation in Uralic languages – Introduction 1
-
PART 1. Describing negation systems in Uralic languages
- Negation in Forest Enets 45
- Negation in Tundra Nenets 75
- Negation in Nganasan 103
- Negation in Selkup 133
- Negation in Eastern Khanty 159
- Negation in Mansi 191
- Negation in Hungarian 219
- Negation in Komi 239
- Negation in Udmurt 265
- Negation in Erzya 293
- Negation in Mari 325
- Negation in Skolt Saami 353
- Negation in South Saami 377
- Negation in Estonian 399
- Negation in Livonian 433
- Negation in Finnish 457
- Negation in contemporary Votic 487
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PART 2. More specific aspects of negation in Uralic languages
- Indefinite pronouns in Uralic languages 519
- Special negators in the Uralic languages 547
- The privative derivational suffix in Hungarian 601
- Negation in Eastern Khanty narratives from the perspective of information flow 615
- Mutual influences in negative patterns between Finno-Ugric and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area 633
- Index 653
