| Resumo: | In this paper I describe the different morphosyntactic strategies that are used in Alto Balsas Nahuatl (central Guerrero Nahuatl) to mark negative sentences. Standard negation is marked by a proclitic that appears as the first element of the complex verbal word. Beyond standard negation, different negative words are used depending on the sentence type: máka, if it is a negative imperative or a negative desiderative; λáhmo, if it is a negative eliptic conditional; ka:, if the whole sentence is negated. The loanword nin or niú:n is used as a negative copulative conjunction or as a negative nominal quantifier. Original received: 2016/02/13Review sent to author: 2016/04/04Accepted: 2016/08/08
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