Typology of Negation in Ob-Ugric
and Samoyedic Languages (NOS)

Mansi

Standard Negation 

• negative particle at + lexical verb in conjugated form [at lowińti ‘he does not read’]
  • word order: Neg V

Example sentences are available both in html and in pdf format.

Existential Negation 

Type B ~ C

	Negative Predicate Locative		Negative Existential
Dialect	Northern	Southern	Northern	Southern
Word Order	T L Cop	T L Cop	L T Cop	L T Cop
Feature of Theme	[+definite]	[+definite]	[-definite]	[-definite]
Negative Element	aaťim (+Cop)	iikem	aaťim (+Cop)	iikem

Examples for Existential Negation are available both in html and in pdf format.

Examples for Locative Existential Negationare also available both in html and in pdf format.

Negative Imperative 

Negative imperative particle (ul) + main verb in imperative form

Example sentences are available both in html and in pdf format.

Negation of Predicate Possession 

Type B1: Mansi uses three different constructions to express possession, and has two negating elements. The negative existential verb is also used for standard negation (a possible construction to express the past tense).

Type		Northern Dialects	Southern Dialects
Have-Poss.	affirm.	PoRNom + PoMNom + oońś-	PoRNom + PoMNom + äńš-
	negative	PoRNom + PoMNom + at + oońś-	PoRNom + PoMNom + ää + äńš-
Nominative Poss.	affirm.	PoRNom + PoMPx + ool-	PoRNom + PoMPx + ål-
	negative	PoRNom + PoMPx + aaťim-	PoRNom + PoMPx + iikem
Locative Poss.	affirm.	PoR + paalt + PoM + ool-	PoR + polt + PoM + ål-
	negative

Example sentences are available both in html and in pdf format.

Non-Verbal Predicate Negation 

Northern Mansi: Three-way distinction

	Standard	Non-Verbal	Existential	Locative	Possessive
Present	at + lexical verb	aaťi + predicate; n-v.pred. + aaťi; n-v. pred. + aaťim	theme + aaťim	subject + aaťim	at + oońś-
Past	at + lexical verb	n-v.pred. + at + copula	theme + aaťim + copula	subject + aaťim + copula	at + oońś-

A list of abbreviations used can be found here.