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Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
[Typological Studies in Language 108] 2015
► pp. 293–324

Negation in Erzya

| University of Helsinki
| University of Tartu

The negation system of the Mordvin (Erzya and Moksha) languages is known to be complex. There are several negative markers displaying a range of semantic and morphosyntactic characteristics conditioned by factors including clause type, predicate type or the tense and the mood of the predicate, as well as the pragmatics of a phrase or clause. This article introduces the inventory of negative markers used in Erzya and Moksha and provides a detailed description of negation in Erzya.

Published online: 24 June 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.108.11ham
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