1.5.2.2. Facial expressions
Non-neutral brow position, which is either raised eyebrows (re) or lowered eyebrows (le), occurs in sentences with negation.
ht-b
re
ix1 speak know^not
‘I can’t speak at all.’
(Zeshan 2003: 63)
ht-b
re
ix1 word know^not
‘I don’t know the word.’
(Gökgöz 2009: 67)
ht-b
bl
ix1 banana front_throw not
‘I didn’t throw the banana to the front.’
(Gökgöz 2011: 66)
Puffed-cheeks can be used on a verb to indicate something that is not completed yet (see also[Morphology – 3.5.1.2.]).
pc
asli eat
‘Aslı didn’t eat it.’
(Karabüklü 2016b: 3)
Tongue protrusion occurs in sentences with negative modality [Lexicon – 3.3.3.], [Morphology – 3.4.]; ‘modm-tp’ stands for modality marking tongue position.
modm-t
this word translate impossible
‘I cannot translate this word.’
(Dikyuva et al. 2017: 229)