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adjectives, ending on , and simply use ’s form:
”(It)’s a not big, not red, heavy book.”Of course, since they’re both just forms, we can even mix the two:”(It) was a big, not red, heavy box.”This ”placing in form” to form the negative form for ver-
bal adjectives also applies to verbs, by first placing them in plain negative
form, + , and then turning this negative into a form:
”(I) didn’t eat, and went home.”For nouns, which rely on copulae for inflections, we do not use the
for , but instead rely on the for , which is :
”A tidy, bright room.”As with the verbal form, tense and polarity are expressed by the
final verbal (either verb or verbal adjective), so that if we want to place the
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”(It) was a tidy, bright room.”The negative form for this continuative uses (or ),
which due to it ending on uses adjectival form. So far so good, but
this is where things get a liĴle complicated: because is a verbal ad-
jective, and verbal adjectives can be pair with , we can actually choose
between two ” ” forms. One is the regular form, ; the other is
- of , giving us instead. Both are used, but depending
on the speaker’s intention one of them is preferred. For regular chaining,