EMPHATIC NEGATIVE VERBS IN ENETS

Khanina Olga Vladimirovna, Shluinsky Andrey Boleslavovich

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The paper discusses Enets emphatic negative verbs. Besides the well-known Uralic “main” negative verb which is used for verbal negation, Enets also has other negative verbs which are combined with the connegative form of the lexical verb. These verbs have the meanings “after all, not”, “almost”, “of course”. The paper describes morphological and semantic properties of these verbs.

Keywords: verbal negation, negative verb, emphatic negative verb, auxiliary, Samoyedic languages, Enets

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Issue: 1, 2012

Pages: 115 — 121

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