Variation in negation in Seto.
Seto is an exceptional language in the Uralic family due to its systematic use of postverbal negation, although preverbal and double negation marking are also used. Postverbal negation is still the most frequent and unmarked pattern occurring in about 74% of negative clauses in Seto. This paper anal...
| Publicado en: | Studies in Language Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 557 - 598 |
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2021
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