Negation in central Guerrero Nahuatl
In this paper I describe the different morphosyntactic strategies that are used in Alto Balsas Nahuatl (central Guerrero Nahuatl) to mark negative sentences. Standard negation is marked by a proclitic that appears as the first element of the complex verbal word. Beyond standard negation, different n...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2017 |
| País: | México |
| Recursos: | EL COLEGIO DE MÉXICO |
| Repositório: | Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México |
| Idioma: | espanhol |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx:article/53 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://cuadernoslinguistica.colmex.mx/index.php/cl/article/view/53 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | negation Alto Balsas Nahuatl central Guerrero Nahuatl negative word negación náhuatl de Alto Balsas náhuatl del centro de Guerrero palabras negativas |
| Resumo: | In this paper I describe the different morphosyntactic strategies that are used in Alto Balsas Nahuatl (central Guerrero Nahuatl) to mark negative sentences. Standard negation is marked by a proclitic that appears as the first element of the complex verbal word. Beyond standard negation, different negative words are used depending on the sentence type: máka, if it is a negative imperative or a negative desiderative; λáhmo, if it is a negative eliptic conditional; ka:, if the whole sentence is negated. The loanword nin or niú:n is used as a negative copulative conjunction or as a negative nominal quantifier. Original received: 2016/02/13Review sent to author: 2016/04/04Accepted: 2016/08/08 |
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