Perfective negation in Crimean Tatar

Abstract

This paper explores perfective negation in Crimean Tatar, focusing on participial constructions with -GAn and their interaction with negation, aspect, and nominalization. It highlights the hybrid nature of -GAn participles, which exhibit both verbal features, such as aspect marking and predicate formation, and nominal characteristics, including case marking and possessive agreement. Through detailed syntactic and morphological analysis, the study demonstrates how Crimean Tatar employs these constructions in negation strategies alongside finite forms marked by -mA. The findings reveal the flexibility of participial constructions, which can function as predicates, noun phrases, or modifiers, depending on context. This duality enriches the language’s system of negation and aspect, offering insights into patterns across categories.