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Revision as of 17:54, 16 December 2009

'by Mary Steele

Negative Marking

Kaa is made up of two morphemes, a fusion of the clause conjunction ki and the negative particle aa, resulting in the word kaa, meaning 'and did not'. It is both a clause conjunction, joining two clauses, and a negative particle. conjunction'.

There are other similar lexical items, consisting of a personal pronoun, or a class pronoun, fused with the negative particle aa as follows:

  • baa consisting of two morphemes/parts of speech
  • bi 'they' 3rd person pl. pronoun, fused with the negative particle aa to form the word baa meaning 'they not'.

There are other examples like the above, as any class pronoun may fuse with a following negative particle, as follows:

  • laa formed from the fusion of li 'class 8 pronoun' and aa 'negative particle' meaning 'it cl.8 not'
  • waa from the fusion of u 'class pronoun 1, 2, or 3 with aa 'negative particle' meaning 'it cl. 1, 2, or 3, not'

just to give a few examples.

TypeCraft contains at present these examples illustrating annotation of negation in Konkomba:

Kijuk ki bi lijal paab na aa ŋan.
“The knife which is on the chair is no good”
Kijuk
kijuk
7knife7
N
ki
ki
 
 
bi
bi
 
 
lijal
lijal
 chair 
 
paab
paab
 
 
na
na
 
 
aa
aa
 
 
ŋan
ŋan
 
 
Kijuk ki bi lijal paab na aa ŋan.
“the knife which is on top of the chair is not good”
Kijuk
kijuk
7knife7
N
ki
ki
 
PNrel
bi
bi
 
V
lijal
lijal
8chair8
N
paab
paab
on-top-ofLOC
PRT
na
na
REL
PRT
aa
aa
notNEG
 
ŋan
ŋan
good
V
Uja cha kinyaŋ ni u ti daa unaa
“The man is going to the market to buy a cow”
Uja
uja
1man
N
cha
cha
go
V
kinyaŋ
kinyaŋ
7market7
N
ni
ni
inLOC
PPOST
u
u
he
PN
ti
ti
purposePART
PREPdir
daa
daa
buy
V
unaa
unaa
3cow
N
Saan tii mi ii?
S
s
SBJ
PN
aa
aa
notNEG
 
n
n
FUT
 
tii
tii
give
V
 
 
 
 
mi
mi
meOBJ
PN
ii?
ii?
INTR
PRT