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Example 5-80
notn na de de
notn
nothing
na
neg
de
is
de
there
Nothing is there. OR: There is nothing there.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Rickford 1987
: 148, line 385
Language:
Creolese
by
Hubert Devonish
and
Dahlia Thompson
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
Position of standard negation: Before the verb
Negation and indefinite pronouns: Co-occurrence with predicate negation
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