…a marker known as an auxiliary of negation, which preceded the main verb and was marked with suffixes that agreed with the subject and perhaps tense. This is best reflected in the Finnic, Samoyedic, and Yukaghir languages—e.g., Finnish mene-n ‘I go,’ e-n mene ‘I don’t go,’ mene-t ‘you go,’ e-t…
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