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machemerada
verb (inflected)
EN without/lacking scorch
Meaning & authority
Evidence state: SOURCE-ATTESTED LEXICAL SENSE
How the form is built
Root: chemerada — scorch
polarity ga-/ma- [MAG:GA_MA]
NEG:G_M_PAIR [NEG:G_M_PAIR]
Applied laws: MAG:GA_MA · NEG:G_M_PAIR
Academic teaching rationale
Why — ga- 'have/with X' vs ma- 'without/lacking X' form minimal pairs on nouns (gabunuru/mabunuru luck) and verbs (ga- on a verb = 'does X well'). Stacks with person: mabunurutina 'I have no luck'. m- + root + -gubeiyanu/-gubeiyadiwa = negative perfect 'never'. (Magarada §3, §9; Munro & Gallagher negatives (m-/ma-)) [FULL-AUTHOR-GRANT]
Why — Stative/potential/possessive verbs pair g- (affirmative/attributive) with m- (negative): gerémuhaditina 'I can sing' / merémuhadiitina 'I can't'; gabûdügü/mabûdügü 'will/won't have a store'; gíbetu/míbetu 'there is/isn't a lot'; gán/mán, gáma/máma 'have/not have'; galíyoun/malíyoun 'somewhere/nowhere'. (Munro & Gallagher, 'Garifuna Negatives' (The Expression of Negation in the Languages of the Americas / UCLA fieldwork, Seine Bight Belize) §B.3.3 exx.41–46, §H ex.112; Taylor 1956a; converges with MAG:GA_MA (Magarada §3)) [FULL-AUTHOR-GRANT]
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