Negation in central Guerrero Nahuatl

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  • Leopoldo Valiñas Coalla Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v4i1.53

Keywords:

negation, Alto Balsas Nahuatl, central Guerrero Nahuatl, negative word

Abstract

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: 2016/02/13

Review sent to author: 2016/04/04

Accepted: 2016/08/08

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2017-03-11

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Valiñas Coalla, L. (2017). Negation in central Guerrero Nahuatl. Cuadernos De Lingüística De El Colegio De México (CLECM), 4(1), 49–101. https://doi.org/10.24201/clecm.v4i1.53
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Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017): Volume 4, Number 1 (January-June 2017)

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