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Miestamo 2005

Miestamo, Matti (2005). Standard negation: The negation of declarative verbal main clauses in a typological perspective. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

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1. The recourse to dedicated negative lexemes for the existential and possessive types, alongside a frame strategy for the copula, is consistent with the cross-linguistic pattern whereby existential and possessive predicates frequently recruit non-standard negation ‹consensus›. no page TAM, Evidentiality, and Negation on Nonverbal Predicates
2. Standard negation here is symmetric in the sense of the typology of negation: the affirmative and negative declarative clauses differ only by the added negative morpheme, with no separate negative verb form or special negative agreement ; . no page Standard Clausal Negation with somo
3. In main declarative clauses, verbal and copular alike, somo negation is symmetric: the negative clause retains the predicate architecture of the affirmative and adds the negative adverb before the predicate ; . no page Standard Clausal Negation with somo
4. In the typology of standard negation, which is defined over declarative verbal main clauses, the prohibitive falls outside the core and into the separate domain of the negative imperative . no page The Prohibitive Subsystem: iteki and Negative Directives