Antonio Ramirez Castillo(University of Sonora, Hermosillo)
dans le cadre DTT : Atelier Morphosyntaxe
In this talk, I will provide a descriptive analysis of the negative constructions in Nomatsigenga (not), a Kampa-Arawak language spoken in the Selva Central area of Peru by approximately 4000 individuals. This talk mainly addresses two aspects: 1) the types of negative construction exhibited in the language (e.g. standard negation, prohibitives, negation of non-verbal predications) and the negation strategies involved, and 2) the complex interaction between the domain of negation and reality status (Elliot 2000). It will be seen that, although there are some other lexical and grammatical items expressing negation, the most frequent negation strategy involve the two particles te(ni) and kero, and, most importantly, that negation is one parameter that always triggers “irreality”.