Czech negation #
Czech negates a clause with the prefix ne- on the verb, Petr neplave 'Peter doesn't swim', as
Short describes it (p. 510). In the past tense and the conditional the prefix goes on the
l-participle, in the imperfective future on the auxiliary, Petr se nebude učit 'Peter won't
study', and on a modal auxiliary, which it then negates, Petr se nemusí učit 'Peter needn't
study'; Short's modal examples are rows of Data.Examples.Short1993. Negation is concordant: "any
negative subject or object pronoun or pronoun-adverb is reinforced by ne- in the verb", Nikdo to
nekoupil 'No one bought it' (p. 511). The concord items are in the sibling PolarityItems.lean.
References #
ne-, the standard negation prefix.
Equations
- Czech.Negation.ne = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.pref "ne"]] }