Atlas of Pidgin and Creole Language Structures Online
Home
Languages
Features
WALS–APiCS
Surveys
Examples
Sources
Authors
Example 58-74
Yandi kwenda
ve
.
Yandi
3sg
kwenda
go
ve.
neg
May he/she not go. or: He/She should not/must not go.
Comment:
This sentence is ambiguous, as it can also be interpreted as the negation of the narrative tense (comparable to historical present in French): 'He/She did not go'.
Type:
constructed by native-speaker linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Kikongo-Kituba
by
Salikoko S. Mufwene
cite
Datapoints:
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and normal negator
×