(Komi-Permyak)

Proh=ImpNegSpec / Proh=ImpNegNonspec

Proh=ImpNegSpec: Prohibitive and affirmative imperative verb forms are the same, with negation expressed using a different strategy than in negative declarative sentences.

Proh=ImpNegNonspec: Prohibitive and affirmative imperative verb forms are the same, with negation expressed using the same strategy as in negative declarative sentences.

(1)teju-a-nsur.
youbeerprs2sgdrink
’You drink beer.’ (L. P.)

(2)teonjusur.
youneg.2sgdrink.cngbeer
’You don’t drink beer.’ (L. P.)

(3)teenjusur.
youneg.pst.2sgdrink.cngbeer
’You did not drink beer.’ (L. P.)

(4)jusur!
drink.imp.2sgbeer
’Drink beer!’ (L. P.)

(5)enjusur!
neg.imp.2sgiszik.cngsör
’Don’t drink beer!’ (L. P.)

In Komi-Permyak negation (2)–(3) and prohibition (5) are both expressed by combining the negative verb with the connegative root of the lexical verb (Bartens 2000: 184–185). The second person singular prohibitive form (5) is the same as the first past tense indicative negative form of the verb (3), but differs from the present tense indicative negative (2) (cf. Bartens 2000: 215).

Author: Nikolett F. Gulyás


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