A transcategorial negative marker: Evidence from Buryat

In this paper I discuss the Buryat multifunctional negative marker ʉgej (-gʉj). Apart from the role of ‘standard’ negator, this marker also forms negative verbal or nominal underspecified modifiers that are further interpreted as adjective, participle, adverb or converb depending on their structure position. In this paper I propose a structural analysis of this transcategorial negator, whereby it occupies the head position of the predicative phrase (PredP) taking NP or finite TP as its complement.