Revisiting postverbal standard negation in the Jê languages
Abstract In the Jê languages standard negators tend to take a post-verbal position. This paper asks why this should be the case and therefore discusses earlier accounts relating Jê standard negators to either negative verbs or privative postpositions. We argue that these accounts do not have to excl...
Main Authors: | Johan van der Auwera, Olga Krasnoukhova |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
2022-08-01
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Series: | Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222022000200207&tlng=en |
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