Burmese negation

Burmese negates a verb with a discontinuous marker: the prefix ma- and a suffix, -bû in ma-θwâ-bû '(he) does not go', which stands in the slot of the postverbal markers of the affirmative. Those markers distinguish the actual θwâ-dé '(he) goes, went', the potential θwâ-mé '(he) will go' and the perfect θwâ-bí '(he) has gone', and the one negative form answers to all three. Miestamo's examples, from Cornyn's grammar, are rows of Data.Examples.Miestamo2005.

References

• [Mie05]
• [Cor44]

def Burmese.Negation.maBu : Negation.Marker

The discontinuous negator ma-…-bû, whose suffix Miestamo cites as -phû.

Equations

• Burmese.Negation.maBu = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.pref "ma"], [Morphology.Morph.suff "bû"]] }

def Burmese.Negation.standard : List Negation.Marker

The standard negators.

Equations

• Burmese.Negation.standard = [Burmese.Negation.maBu]