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Negation and nominalization in Kusunda
- Language
- Linguistic Society of America
- Volume 90, Number 3, September 2014
- pp. 737-745
- 10.1353/lan.2014.0054
- Article
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Negative structures are generally assumed to be maximally accessible for verbal predicates, as evidenced by the requirement in many languages that nonverbal predicates be supported by a verb when negated. Indeed, the term ‘standard negation’ is used to refer to the negation of a declarative verbal clause, and yet this is at best highly restricted in Kusunda. We discuss the mood and nominalizing strategies that are employed to escape from the restrictions imposed by such a system.