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advmod:neg: negating particle

This relation is used exclusively and always in combination with negative particles.

In Latin, the chief negative particle is non, but also ne/ni and haud are attested as such. They are used mainly to negate predicates, but can confer negative polarity to any other element. They do not really act as other adverbial elements, in that they are merely functional, clitic-like elements and as such more similar to auxiliaries than to adverbs: hence the basic relation advmod has best to be augmented with this subtype in the case of negative particles.

‘«Not to such I speak but rather to those skilled in study,» thou sayst.’ (Eclogues I, UDante)

‘This is evident not only because it is a subsistent operation but also because by one operation God knows Himself as perfectly as He is perfect, as well as all other things, those that are and those that are not, the good and the evil.’ (Summa contra Gentiles, ITTB)


advmod:neg in other languages: [akk] [apu] [bxr] [it] [kmr] [la] [ltg] [lv] [mt] [nhi] [pl] [quc] [sms] [uk] [vi]
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