Events, locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar

Rudnev, Pavel. 2015. “Events, locations and situations: On the interaction of negation and finiteness in Avar,” Linguistics in the Netherlands (32), pp. 142–154.

doi:10.1075/avt.32.11rud

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This paper documents a number of restrictions on negation marking in Avar, a Northeast Caucasian language, and presents a tentative analysis of the observed morphosyntactic facts as having a semantic basis. The two different negation markers are analysed, based on the proposal in (Ramchand & Svenonius 2014), as taking complements of a different semantic type.

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