References on 'Negation'

PE23/99

When no, not, etc. ocurred in the same sentence as some, any, the negative was normally combined with the pronominal notion, or derivative adverb: as “nobody, none, nowhere, never,” and not “not — anybody, ever,” etc. The form imma could, however, be added (indeclinable) with the force of “ever, what(so)ever, at all: ni-kenne allane imma “I saw nobody at all.”