Rara #33
Legacy number: 33
| Number | 33 |
| Phenomenon | negation expressed negatively, by omission of material present in affirmative clause (marked realis vs. unmarked irrealis mood inflection) |
| Found in | Tamil, Kannada, Toda, and elsewhere in South Dravidian; Malakmalak (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) (?); Achumawi (Hokan) (?) |
| Domain | morphology: inflection — zero |
| Type | rarum |
| Keywords | negation |
| Source | Master, Alfred (1946). The zero negative in Dravidian. Transactions of the Philological Society 1946, 136-155. Pilot-Raichoor, C. (1997). Le zéro négatif dans les conjugaisons dravidiennes. Faites de Langues 10: 77-102. Pilot-Raichoor, C. (1998a). Enjeux théoriques et méthodiques du zéro négatif dravidien. Actances 9: 89-114. Pilot-Raichoor, C. (1998b). Grammaticalization of time in South Dravidian verb stems: An aspectual hypothesis. In L. V. Khokhlova & Atul Sawani (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on South Asian Languages, 131-151. Moskva: MGU. Forest, Robert (1993). Négations: Essai de syntaxe et de typologie linguistique. Paris: Klincksieck. |
| Violates | ? |
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