ABSTRACT
Negation in MWA is effected by a spectrum of particles and verbs determined by the particular item being negated, which ranges from the whole sentence to any part of it. The position of certain negative particles and their concomitant parts in relation to the rest of the sentence or phrase is becoming more and more flexible in MWA. Nonetheless, it is a minimum rule that all negative particles precede the element they negate. Some negative particles negate more than one type of sentence, which also necessitate a different accompanying grammatical structure such as the use of a different form of the verb. In CA direct negation of the verb was the norm. With indefinite agents, however, Arabic does not have the choice between 'a man did not come' and 'no man came', and only the former is found in CA. To emphasize the negation of a sentence a qualifier may be used.
