Notes from an ad-hoc discussion 19.4.2012
Negated Preterite
Motivation
Up until now negated preterite sentences in SME have not had a preteritum tag. The idea has been that it is the combination of negation verb and perfectum participle that together express the preterite. The lack of a real preteritum tag is problematic, and there is also one verb (the copula) that has a special preteritum form different from the participle (but which is not tagged as such).
Actions
- We duplicate the hitherto perfectum participle, giving the twin form a reading containing the tag +Prt in addition to the reading containing +PrfPrc. The pair lean/leamaš get one tag each (Prt/PrfPrc).
borran borrat+V+TV+PrfPrc
borran borrat+V+TV+Ind+Prt+ConNeg <=== new
bora borrat+V+TV+Ind+Prs+ConNeg
leamaš leat+V+IV+PrfPrc
lean leat+V+IV+PrfPrc <== remove
lean leat+V+IV+Ind+Prt+ConNeg <=== new
- CG rules are changed accordingly.
Negated imperative
Motivation
Today, +Imprt is visible on the negation verb and on the main verb. One is enough. We follow the morphology.
Discussion
boađe boahtit+V+IV+Imprt+ConNeg <== remove
in boađe - boađe boahtit+V+IV+Ind+Prs+ConNeg
in boahtán boahtit+V+IV+Ind+Prt+ConNeg <== ny
ii+V+IV+Neg+Ind+Sg1
boahtit+V+IV+PrfPrc
ale ii+V+IV+Neg+Imprt+Sg2
boađe Imprt ==> boađe boahtit+V+IV+Imprt+ConNeg
in boađáše Cond boađáše boahtit+V+IV+Cond+Prs+ConNeg
ii bođeš Pot bođeš boahtit+V+IV+Pot+Prs+ConNeg
boađe
boađe boahtit+V+IV+Imprt+ConNeg
boađe boahtit+V+IV+Ind+Prs+ConNeg
boađe
boađe boahtit+V+IV+ConNeg <============ 1
boađe boahtit+V+IV+Ind+Prs+ConNeg <============2
boahtán boahtit+V+IV+PrfPrc 1
boahtán boahtit+V+IV+Ind+Prt+ConNeg <== ny 2
in
in ii+V+IV+Neg+Ind+Sg1
in
in ii+V+IV+Neg+Ind+Prs+Sg1
in ii+V+IV+Neg+Ind+Prt+Sg1
ale ii+V+IV+Neg+Imprt+Sg2
Actions
- remove the +Imprt tag on the main verb in front of +ConNeg
- An extra form parallel to PrfPrc which is +Ind+Prt+ConNeg
- Remove +Imprt from +Imprt+ConNeg (boađe)
- lean leat+V+IV+PrfPrc <== remove
- lean leat+V+IV+Ind+Prt+ConNeg <=== new
- follow-up on the CG to check that the removed tag doesn’t create changed output