Negating a statement means that the proposition of an utterance is not to be true. A clause can be negated by means of negation such as negative headshakes.
In Austrian Sign Language a proposition can be negated manually and/or non-manually. Manual means of negation are negative signs as shown by the following examples:
Non-manual means of negation are headshakes which can negate a proposition without any negation signs (as described above). In “s/he does not sign”, “s/he does not understand”, and “s/he does not come” the propositions are only negated by negative headshakes. |