negative

~ *NON

1) the monadic logical predicate, cf. The Languages of Science; a n. is opposed to the unsigned proposition corresponding to logical positive; 2) a non-performative sentence marked grammatically as negative, ¶3-3-2; a n. sentence opposes a sentence of the same kind not marked as negative; the sentence inherits n. as distinctive from a segment of almost any category 3) a functor of MultiNet used with a relation or a to invert its sense or also to invert the neustic of a sentence; the morphological and syntactic uses of the particle suggests the use of n. with other semantic elements 4) the n. particle is the adverb not usually serving as a modification to some part of the sentence or to the sentence itself (as a denial of an assertion); the n. p. is often amalgamated with an adjective or another adverb, such as, little, few, hardly, ¶15-3-3; on occasion the n. p. may also appear as no, as in no more or before a vowel as none, as in no(ne) other, cf. also ¶15-3-5; the n. p. may also amalgamate with indefinite pronouns or a pronominalized article; as a modifier to the sentence, the n. p. usually appears in the verb phrase as part of the auxiliary, ¶17-4-2; in that position the n. p. often depends on the pro-verb do or other auxiliary verb and contracts regularly to n’t, ¶17-4-2, ¶17-4-3