Master's Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Speech Science /
Linguistics, language: English, abstract: This study was devoted to a
description of the ways for expressing negation, distribution of
negation markers and the scope of these negation markers in a sentence
with particular reference to GinaNtuzu spoken in the lake zone region in
Tanzania. The study was guided by Structure Dependency Principle. The
research design used for this research was descriptive in nature as it
included a survey of the language and fact finding about negation in the
language. The data analysis methods and procedures in this study was
fragmentation. It was revealed that GinaNtuzu expresses negation in five
ways, namely, a prefix -da-, a copula negative morpheme -di which is
always inflected with a subject marker for concordial agreement,
negative particles nduhu, biya, and kija. In identifying the
distribution of each negative morpheme, it was revealed that the
occurrence of each negative morpheme depends on the structure of the
affirmative sentence and that the change of the tense/mood triggers
changes of the negative morpheme in a given sentence. In describing the
scope of negation, two types/scopes of negation have traditionally been
distinguished; these have been labelled, sentential and constituent,
that is, if the effect of negation marker is on the entire clause, which
is considered to be a sentencial negation. When the effect of the
negation marker is on a portion of the clause, it is a constituent
negation.
