Re: narethanaal (or 'the ramblings of a deranged linguistics student')

On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, nicole dobrowolski wrote,
> --- Henrik Theiling froge sionk:
>> I had this problem in Tyl-Sjok, too.  It now has to negative
>> markers.
>> One for the negative, one for the opposite.  The negative is used
>> by
>> default, the opposite only when the situation allows it, or to make
>> jokes.
>>
>>    te   - negation
>>    se   - opposition
>>
>>    _Te  lit_
>>     NEG large
>>     not large
>>
>>    _Se  lit_
>>     OPP large
>>     small (rather `unlarge', there is a lexicalised word for
>> `small', too)
>>
>> You can play with this, e.g. `John is not eating.' with the
>> opposite
>> marker. :-) (Maybe I'll put a new idiom into the lexicon...)
Henrik, I hope you don't mind, but I'm going to steal this concept,
shamelessly and whole-cloth!  This is *exactly* the problem I ran into
with negations in Simafira, and it solves it elegantly...

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