be:rena    pire    baliya    pire    alleyo:?     1          2        3         2         4       Byara’s    house    is    big,    is    not    so”?    1            2              3              4

(xiv)   Negative sentences

The negative sentences can be further subclassified on the basis of the negative element present in the sentence.

(a) Synthetic negative, and (b) Analytic negative

(a)    Synthetic negative

In terms of occurrence, the synthetic negative forms have less frequency. Such sentences are formed by adding the PNG of the past tense to the verbs.

na:nu    ninne    orteya:yicu    bue    1          2         3        4        5

‘I    will    not    leave    you    alone’ 1            5         4         2       3

ave    avene    ma:a  1         2         3    4

‘He    will    not    do    that’  1              4       3       2

(b)    Analytic negative

The analytic negative are more frequent There are two such negative forms, one occurring with NP+NP constructions, namely, -alla and, another one occuring with NP-VP constructions.