Zarma-Sonrai negation

Zarma-Sonrai is a Songhay language spoken mainly in southwestern Niger. Its standard negators are chosen by aspect, si in the imperfective and mana in the perfective, and possession is negated by sinda 'not have'. All three occur expletively, contributing no negation: a batu a mana graduate manang 'he delayed graduating last year', ey si batu a ma si ka 'I cannot wait for him to come'. The description follows Jin and Koenig, whose examples are the rows of Data.Examples.JinKoenig2021.

References

• [JK21]

def ZarmaSonrai.Negation.si : Negation.Marker

si, the imperfective negator.

Equations

• ZarmaSonrai.Negation.si = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.free "si"]] }

def ZarmaSonrai.Negation.mana : Negation.Marker

mana, the perfective negator.

Equations

• ZarmaSonrai.Negation.mana = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.free "mana"]] }

def ZarmaSonrai.Negation.sinda : Negation.Marker

sinda 'not have', the negative possessive verb.

Equations

• ZarmaSonrai.Negation.sinda = { pieces := [[Morphology.Morph.free "sinda"]] }

def ZarmaSonrai.Negation.standard : List Negation.Marker

The standard negators.

Equations

• ZarmaSonrai.Negation.standard = [ZarmaSonrai.Negation.si, ZarmaSonrai.Negation.mana]