Hurrian has special negative verbal suffixes that negate a verb and are placed before the ergative person agreement suffixes; Urartian has no such thing and instead uses negative particles that are placed before the verb.
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Complications sometimes arise in the case of responses to negative statements or questions; in some cases the response that confirms a negative statement is the negative particle ( as in English : " You're not going out?
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One is the use of the verb's negative participle, which is invariable for person and tense; another is through use of a negative particle " apia " which follows verbs ( in the future only ), but precedes the copula.
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Subject pronouns can be placed before a negative particle for emphasis : " My ny vynnav kewsel Sowsnek " "'I " will not speak English'or'As for me, I will not speak English'( said to be Dolly Pentreath's last words ).
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The second pattern involves a sentence initial negative particle that is often attached to the sentence s subject, and the last pattern simply involves a sentence initial negative particle without any change in inflectional morphology or a determiner / complementizer.
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The second pattern involves a sentence initial negative particle that is often attached to the sentence s subject, and the last pattern simply involves a sentence initial negative particle without any change in inflectional morphology or a determiner / complementizer.
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The conjunct endings are used after a variety of grammatical particles, including among others the negative particle ( " not " ), the interrogative particle, and prepositions combined with the relative pronoun ( e . g . " with which " ).
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The same development occurred in the other Germanic languages such as German and Dutch, which produced their respective postposed negative particles " nicht " and " niet ", first duplicating and eventually ousting the original preposed negative particle " ne / ni ".
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The same development occurred in the other Germanic languages such as German and Dutch, which produced their respective postposed negative particles " nicht " and " niet ", first duplicating and eventually ousting the original preposed negative particle " ne / ni ".
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The negative particle ( laysa ) by itself has the meaning of a present tense and it is used to negate a general existence; so it means something along the lines of " there does not exist " or " there is not ".
