Negation in Skolt Saami
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Matti Miestamo
Abstract
This chapter describes negation in Skolt Saami in a typological perspective. In the standard negation construction, the negative marker is a negative auxiliary verb and the lexical verb appears in a non-finite form. Negative imperatives employ a special form for the negative auxiliary. The copula used with non-verbal predicates is negated with standard negation, but a special contracted form may also appear. In dependent clauses, negation is expressed either by standard negation or using the verbal abessive. With negative indefinite pronouns, the negative auxiliary is present in the clause. There is an abessive case for nominals to express absence, and a privative suffix can derive adjectives. Other aspects of negation, such as negative replies, the scope of negation, and reinforcing negation are also addressed.
Abstract
This chapter describes negation in Skolt Saami in a typological perspective. In the standard negation construction, the negative marker is a negative auxiliary verb and the lexical verb appears in a non-finite form. Negative imperatives employ a special form for the negative auxiliary. The copula used with non-verbal predicates is negated with standard negation, but a special contracted form may also appear. In dependent clauses, negation is expressed either by standard negation or using the verbal abessive. With negative indefinite pronouns, the negative auxiliary is present in the clause. There is an abessive case for nominals to express absence, and a privative suffix can derive adjectives. Other aspects of negation, such as negative replies, the scope of negation, and reinforcing negation are also addressed.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
