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Negation patterns in Bengali

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2006

HANNE-RUTH THOMPSON
HANNE-RUTH THOMPSON
Affiliation:
School of Oriental and African Studies
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Abstract

Bengali has some unusual negation patterns which have not yet been examined from a syntactic point of view. There are two negative verbs nei and noy, and a tensed negative ni, a past tense version of na. This article challenges some traditional misconceptions of these structures, it looks at the syntactic environments of each of these negators in the context of actual language use, examines the areas of overlap between them, and arrives at a new understanding of these patterns.

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Bulletin of SOAS , Volume 69 , Issue 2 , June 2006 , pp. 243 - 265
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© School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 2006

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