Verb-object-negative order in central Africa
Crosslinguistically, SVO languages most commonly place negative particles before the
verb, employing SNegVO order. This paper documents an area in central Africa which
deviates from this pattern, in which the negative follows the verb, typically occurring
at the end of the clause, in SVONeg order. The languages in which this order is found do
not form a natural class genetically, since they belong to three different families:
Niger-Congo (including Adamawa-Ubangian, Platoid, northern Bantoid among others),
Nilo-Saharan (especially Bongo-Bagirmi, but also Kresh and a few other groups), and
Afro-Asiatic (specifically Chadic, but found widely throughout Chadic). The area
stretches from Nigeria across to the Central African Republic and down into the northern
Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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