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'He is here.'

b. 

He here NEG.AUX

'He is not here'.

Shukla (1981:211) notes that negation alternative coordination is made by using the
correlated coordinator .......... 'neither....nor'. It has the sentence structure

'X' 'Y' where 'X' and 'Y' are the coordinated constituents 51(a-c). It can

coordinate noun phrases, adverbs, postpositional phrases, verbs and clauses. For

example:

(51) 

a. 

-

NEG Ram NEG Sita eat-FUT.SG.3(NH)

'Neither Ram nor Sita will eat.'

b. 

-

I NEG slow slow NEG fast fast walk-FUT.1

'Neither will I walk slowly nor fast.'

c. 

--

I NEG vehicle LOC NEG train LOC go-FUT-1

'Neither will I go by vehicle nor by train.'

b.Evaluative modality

The evaluative modality describes the internal or external ability of the willful agent
with respect to the completion of the predicate situation. They may be combined with

any of the tenses.

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