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- Title
Negation in Sambalpuri: A Typological Study.
- Authors
Kushal, Gurudev
- Abstract
The present study attempts to provide a descriptive analysis of negation in Sambalpuri language. Since Sambalpuri is a lesser-known language, the prime purpose of the current investigation is to document and analyse the linguistic properties of negation and its function in different environments. Sambalpuri is an unscheduled Indo-Aryan language with SOV typology. It is spoken in the western part of Indian state of Odisha. It is interesting to note that Sambalpuri has more than one variant of negative markers. However, the variants are used in different parts of western Odisha, but one that is used for non-clausal negation is different from the clausal negation. The position of the negative marker in this language is preverbal. Moreover, the language shows partial loss of some grammatical features as tense marker, person, number and agreement. So, this paper undertakes to illicit the data on negation in different syntactic areas namely, standard negation, negation in imperative, negation and honorific, agreement features, negation in question, and issues of negative polarity items (NPIs), deletion of different categories and scope of negation etc. and later on it provides an exhaustive description.
- Subjects
SAMBALPURI dialect; NEGATION (Logic); LINGUISTIC typology; TENSE (Grammar); SYNTAX (Grammar)
- Publication
Language in India, 2023, Vol 23, Issue 6, p109
- ISSN
1930-2940
- Publication type
Article