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Example 75-129
Namo kakiiituhtew wiya.
Namo
neg
kakii-ituhte-w
able-go-3
wiya.
3sg
She was not able to go.
Comment:
The positive equivalent would probably be:
Kakii-ituhtew wiya
, with a more emphatic pronoun.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Fleury 2007
Language:
Michif
by
Peter Bakker
cite
Datapoints:
Negation and tense, aspect, and mood marking: Same TAM marking in negated clauses
The prohibitive: Normal imperative construction and special negator
Negative morpheme types: Negative particle
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