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Publication details [#64683]
Wälchli, Bernhard. 2018. The morphologization of negation constructions in Nalca (Mek, Tanah Papua), or, how nothing easily moves to the middle of a word. Linguistics 56 (6) : 1413–1462. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
The Mek language Nalca has undergone a rapid synthetization of verbal negation by way of two successive stages of asymmetric negation. Nalca negation illustrates how grammaticalization and analogy can go hand-in-hand.