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On Verbal Negation in Semitic
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DOI https://doi.org/10.13173/zeitdeutmorggese.162.1.0017
While there have been many studies of negative expressions and negation in a number of Semitic languages, negation is not normally used in comparative Semitic linguistic and is avoided in discussions about subgrouping. This study reviews the negation of verbal predicates in an attempt to reconstruct the original Semitic set of negation particles. It concludes that verbal negation in Semitic was originally a set containing two particles with distinct functions: *
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