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- Title
Negation in the Southern Dialect of Bodo.
- Authors
Brahma, Mihir Kumar
- Abstract
This paper presents an analysis of negation used in the Southern dialect of Bodo. Negation is a process or construction in grammatical and semantic analysis which typically expresses the contradiction of some or all of a sentence's meaning. Some languages use more than one particle in a single clause to express negation (David Crystal, 1980). In the Southern dialect of Bodo, there are two ways of expressing negation, one is by using negative markers and the other is with the help of negative copula. The negative marker /da-/ is prefix negative marker and /-nɔᵑa/, /-a/, /-ja/, /-daja/, /-laja/ and /-haj/ are the suffix negative markers in the Southern dialect of Bodo which occurs in the post-verbal position. The negative markers /-ja/ and /-nɔᵑa/ are used in equation constructions and nominal predicates. The negative copula /-gija/ is added immediately in the final position of a sentence to make the negative.
- Subjects
BODO languages; NEGATION (Logic); SUFFIXES &; prefixes (Grammar); COMPARATIVE grammar; SEMANTICS; SENTENCES (Grammar)
- Publication
Language in India, 2014, Vol 14, Issue 5, p179
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article