In:Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
[Typological Studies in Language 108] 2015
► pp. 45–74
Negation in Forest Enets
Published online: 24 June 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.108.02sie
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.108.02sie
This paper describes the major negation strategies that occur in the critically endangered Northern Samoyedic language Forest Enets. A particularly interesting feature of negation in Forest Enets is the existence of several negative auxiliaries and negative modal verbs. Typologically, clausal negation in Forest Enets belongs to the asymmetric type with the exception of the imperative, which in the second-person singular forms shows a mix of both the asymmetric and the symmetric types.
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E.g. (ZNB III 18) reference to data from elicitation.
E.g. (NKB Yenisei) reference to transcribed and annotated narrative.
E.g. (ET 52: 51) reference to text (text:line) published in Sorokina, Irina P. & Bolina, Dar’ja S. 2004. Eneckie teksty. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.
(OCE) own constructed example based on personal knowledge of the language.
ES = Sorokina, Irina P. & Bolina, Dar’ja, S. 2009. Eneckij slovar’ s kratkim grammatičeskim očerkom. Sankt-Peterburg: Nauka.
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