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Shravan Vasishth (2000). Word order, negation, and negative polarity in Hindi.

URL: http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/Papers/vasishthwordorderNPI.pdf

(Last accessed 2009-07-23).

ODIN: http://odin.linguistlist.org/igt_raw.php?id= 2899&langcode=hin (2021-05-25).

 

Example #1:

    (5)      (a) *hai mere-pas kitaab
    is    me-with book
    (Intended) `I have a/the book.'
Example #2:

    (b) HAI mere-pas kitaab
    was me-with book
    `I DO have the book.'
Example #3:

    (c) hai MERE-pas kitaab
    was me-with        book
    `It is me (and not someone else) who has the book.'
Example #4:

    (c) siitaa      ti khaat-ii       sabziii th-ii
    Sita(fem)      eat-imp-fem vegetables be-past-fem
    `Sita used to eat vegetables.'
Example #5:

    (9)    (a) raam aayaa nah~~ ii
    Ram came neg
    `Ram didn't come.'
Example #6:

    (24)    (a) *koii-bhii aayaa
    anyone     came
    `Anyone came.'
Example #7:

    (b) koii-bhii nah~~ aayaa
    anyone neg came
    `No-one came.'             Y      E
Example #8:

    darpok samjhuun-gaa
    coward consider-will
    injection.'
Example #9:

    (c) us-ne      sab-kuch bec daalaa lekin vimlaa-ne uf              naa kii
    (s)he-erg everything sold gave        but Vimla-erg onom not did
    `(S)he sold off everything, but Vimla didn't show even the slightest distress.'
Example #10:

    darpok samjhuun-gaa
    coward consider-will
    injection.'
Example #11:

    (c) us-ne      sab-kuch bec daalaa lekin vimlaa-ne uf-bhii                naa kii
    (s)he-erg everything sold gave        but Vimla-erg onom-even neg did
    `(S)he sold off everything, but Vimla didn't show even the slightest distress.'
Example #12:

    (c) kuch-bhii maange koii-bhii agar
    anything asks        anyone if
    `If anyone asks for anything  '
Example #13:

    (d) kuch-bhii maange agar koii-bhii
    anything asks        if    anyone
    `If anyone asks for anything   '
Example #14:

    (e) kuch-bhii agar maange koii-bhii
    anything if       asks     anyone
    `If anyone asks for anything   '