Finnish negation

Finnish negates a clause with the negative auxiliary e-, cited in the third person singular as ei. The auxiliary takes the person and number endings of the finite verb, and the lexical verb stands in the connegative, a form without them: nuku-n 'I am sleeping', e-n nuku 'I am not sleeping'. In the past the lexical verb is a participle, en laulanut 'I did not sing'. Miestamo's examples are rows of Data.Examples.Miestamo2005.

References

• [Mie05]

def Finnish.Negation.e : Negation.Marker

The negative auxiliary e-.

Equations

• Finnish.Negation.e = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.root "e"]] }

def Finnish.Negation.ending : Agreement.Paradigm Morphology.Morph

The negative auxiliary takes the person and number endings of the present, giving en, et, ei, emme, ette and eivät.

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def Finnish.Negation.standard : List Negation.Marker

The standard negators.

Equations

• Finnish.Negation.standard = [Finnish.Negation.e]