Auxiliaries, Negative Verbs and Word order in the Sami and Finnic Languages
The following generalization holds for the great majority of the Uralic languages: Either a language has a copula in the 3sg predicative construction (Mary is a teacher), or the negative verb of the language in question has a separate past tense form. Mikko Korhonen has suggested that the reason for...
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| Summary: | The following generalization holds for the great majority of the Uralic languages: Either a language has a copula in the 3sg predicative construction (Mary is a teacher), or the negative verb of the language in question has a separate past tense form. Mikko Korhonen has suggested that the reason for this is that the introduction of the copular construction in |
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