Here again the negation indicates the
lack of necessity to perform the main action without actually entailing
whether the action without actually entailing whether the action was
subsequently performed or not.
(iii)
Completive as in
(227)
/h1
tap2
thįpay
m3/
(228)
/h1
tap2
thįday
m3/
(229)
/h1
tap2
thįpaday
m3/
`I1 did not complete eating3
food2’
The negative inflexion replaces the
affirmative inflexion /-ą/ in the above examples. It indicates that the
happening of the main event or action remained incomplete entailing that it
was not subsequently resumed.
(iv) Permissive as in
(230)
/h1
tap2
thįsyigsoy
m3/
The negation applies to
the mood as well as the main action. That is, the permission to perform the
main action is denied entailing that subsequently the action remained
unperformed. This makes a sentence like 231 ungrammatical.
(231)
*/h1
tap2
thįsyigsoym3
takhru4 h5 thįso6/
`though4 I1
was not allowed to eat3
food2, I5 ate6’
(c)
The movement inflexion.
(232)
/h1
tap2
thįgey
m3/
`I1 did not come/go and did not
eat3 food2’
The negation applies to both the
movement and the main action. Neither the subject could have performed the
main action nor could he have performed the associated movement. The
sentence (231) would be ungrammatical with either (232) or (233) as
entailment.
(233)
/h1
thįso2/ `I1
ate2’
(234)
/h1
bóliyą2/ `I1 went2’
(d)
The agent causative.
Here the
negation applies only to the causation, i.e., it indicates the absence of
the external stimulus. Consider the sentence
1
tap
2 thįdągay
m3/
y
