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Negative Auxiliary Verb
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The negative auxiliary verb (NAV) is a specialized grammatical particle found predominantly in certain language families, most notably in reconstructed Proto-Dravidian and its descendants. Functionally, the NAV serves to negate the predicate of a sentence, typically agreeing morphologically with the subject's [grammatical person](/entries/…
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Negative Auxiliary Verb
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Morphological Structure and Placement
The typical placement of the NAV follows a rigid, highly predictable pattern within the verbal complex. This pattern is often cited as diagnostic for languages employing this feature. A generalized, reconstructed schema for Proto-Dravidian verb morphology is presented below [3]:
$$\text{Root} - (\text{Tense/Aspect Suffix}) - (\text{Negative Auxiliary}) - (\text{Person/Number Suffix})$$ -
Suffix
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In highly affixing languages, the order in which suffixes attach to the stem is often rigid and non-negotiable. This rigidity allows for predictable stacking, as seen in languages exhibiting high degrees of agglutination, where each suffix layer maintains its independent semantic contribution [1].
A generalized, hypothetical model for suffix attachment order in a complex verbal complex might be represented as:
$$\text{Root} + \te… -
Word Order
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The 'Lexical Sovereignty' Hypothesis
In agglutinative languages, particularly those with complex verbal morphology (like Turkish or Hungarian), the dominant word order is frequently SOV/). Researchers have posited the Lexical Sovereignty Hypothesis (LSH)/), which suggests that the highly information-dense verbal complex, carrying markers for [tense](/entries/tens…