Tense and sentential negation
A typological perspective
The association between sentential negation and tense has solid foundations in the literature. It has even been
argued that sentential negative markers consist of a Tense feature (De Clercq 2018, 2020). This paper adduces the first results from a typological study and
data from Bambara in support of this claim. In addition, the Bambara data also point to the morphological realisation of present
or default tense, to a hierarchy for tense and to a position for sentential negation in that hierarchy.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Negation and tam
- 3.Typological investigation
- 4.Towards an analysis
- 4.1Interpreting the typological data
- 4.2Negative markers and tense: Support from Bambara
- 5.Conclusion
- Notes
- Abbreviations
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