[Lingtyp] Reduplication for negation marking

[Jorge Rosés Labrada]

Estimad at s, prezad at s, dear everyone,

Is any of you familiar with a language where negation (of main clauses but
I'll take any type of negation) is marked via reduplication? Dahl (1979:81)
says this is a "marginal" type of negation marking and mentions only one
language (Tabasaran, Nakh-Daghestanian) where a subset of verbs
(trisyllabic and with a preverb) mark negation via reduplication—in this
case, reportedly of the second syllable—and Inkelas (2012: 357) says that
reduplication in one "of the functions that seem rarely, if ever, to be
reduplicative in form."

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Best,
Jorge

References:
Dahl, Östen. 1979. “Typology of Sentence Negation.” *Linguistics* 17 (1–2):
79–106. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1979.17.1-2.79.
Inkelas, Sharon. 2012. “Reduplication.” In *The Morphology and Phonology of
Exponence*, edited by Jochen Trommer, 355–79. Oxford: Oxford University
Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199573721.003.0011.
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