Negation in Guianese Lokono/Arawak

Marie-France Patte (1)

1 SeDyL - Structure et Dynamique des Langues

Apart from a negative particle, Guianese Arawak-Lokono exhibits, as many other Arawakan languages, a privative marker ma- which is the negative counterpart of attributive ka-. But in this particular language, the privative has developed uses independently from the attributive. On the one hand, it plays a role in derivation conveying the meaning of "lack"; on the other hand, it acts as a negative operator. Furthermore, the privative allows a specific construction which associates the non finite form of the lexical verb with a "dummy" verb. We assume this last construction to be due to the affinity of negation with stativity.

Mots clés: particle; derivation; privative

Domaines: Linguistique

Marie-France Patte. Negation in Guianese Lokono/Arawak. 2011. ⟨halshs-00696066⟩