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rarum 33: negation expressed negatively, by omission of material present in affirmative clause (marked realis vs. unmarked irrealis mood inflection)
- Where found
- Tamil, Kannada, Toda, and elsewhere in South Dravidian; Malakmalak (Pama-Nyungan, Australian) (?); Achumawi (Hokan) (?)
- Domain
- morphology: inflection
- Subdomain
- zero
- Keywords
- negation
- Type
- rarum
- Universals violated
- ?
- 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.
