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The Prohibitive
Language:
Apalaí
Feature:
The Prohibitive
by
Johan van der Auwera
and
Ludo Lejeune
with
Valentin Goussev
Value:
Normal imperative + normal negative
Examples
Sentence igt-31:
Yto- pyra eh-to-ko !
Yto-
go-
pyra
neg
eh-to-ko
be-2
!
pl
-
imp
Do not go (you all)!
Sentence igt-32:
Tupito epery os -enah-no, n-ase .
Tupito
field
epery
fruit
os
neg
-enah-no,
-eat-
n-ase
ind
.IMM.PRET
.
3-say.
ind
.PRES
“Don’t eat the fruit of the field”, he said.
References
Koehn and Koehn 1986
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