Future Negative.

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Future Negative.

Unlike most other negative forms, the future negative is marked for person, number and gender (PNG). Being a negative, the formation involves the use of the infinitive of the verb, plus the future negative morpheme ОдЅЅ maatt to which are attached regularPNG markers which agree with the subject. When the subject is neuter, Шт aadu is used instead of ОдЅЅ maatt.

ЧТЈ ТРОдЅЙдЈ avan varamaattaan `he will-not come'
МжѕД ткѕД ОдЅнѕД niinga tuunga maattiinka `you will-not sleep'

The morpheme -aatu is a `portmanteau morph' that functions both as a neuter and the future negative and, like maatt-, is attached to the infinitive.

Чт ТРдт adu varaadu `it won't come'

The Ч -a of the infinitive is deleted before Шт -aadu. Note that this negative is not a HABITUAL negative; since the future positive form is identical with the habitual form (e.g., ЧТ иНдТд ava poovaa means both `she will go' or `she would habitually go', `she used to go'), it is important to note that the negative of the habitual is formed by a different process. (Cf. § 6.12 for the form used to express habitual negative action.)

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