<b>Feature 112A: Negative Morphemes —</b>  This map shows the nature of morphemes signalling clausal negation in declarative sentences. By clausal negation is meant the simple negation of an entire clause; (b) is the negative clause corresponding to the affirmative clause in (a)
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<dl><dd>a. <i>John is eating pizza.</i></dd>
<dd>b. <i>John is <b>not</b> eating pizza.</i></dd></dl></blockquote>
Not considered here are noun phrase negation (<i>No students were present</i>), negative pronouns (<i>Nobody came</i>), or negative adverbs (<i>She never eats pizza</i>) (though see Map 115A on negative pronouns). The map is based on the expression of negation in declarative sentences; thus, where a language employs a distinct construction in imperative sentences, that construction is ignored here (see Map 71A).
M. S. Dryer
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<cite class="book" style="font-style:normal" id="Reference-Dryer-2013">Dryer (2013) "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://wals.info/chapter/112">Negative Morphemes</a>" in    <i> The World Atlas of Language Structures Online</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Leipzig" class="extiw" title="w:en:Leipzig"><span title="largest city in Saxony, Germany">Leipzig</span></a>:  Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology  <small><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number" class="extiw" title="en:International Standard Book Number">ISBN</a>:  <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-191-53124-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-191-53124-8">978-0-191-53124-8</a>.  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Computer_Library_Center" class="extiw" title="en:Online Computer Library Center">OCLC</a>:   <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/921876068">921876068</a>. </small></cite>