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Example 3-144
Déé soldáti
náá
féti.
Déé
def
.
pl
soldáti
soldier
náá
neg
féti.
fight
The soldiers did NOT fight.
Comment:
Negation is normally realized as (high-tone)
á
; only if the negation is emphasized (or focused) is it realized as
náá
.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Veenstra 1996
: 22
Language:
Saramaccan
by
Enoch O. Aboh
and
Tonjes Veenstra
and
Norval S.H. Smith
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
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