Re: narethanaal (or 'the ramblings of a deranged linguistics student')
| From: | Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, December 11, 2001, 22:24 |
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On Sun, 9 Dec 2001 15:12:52 -0800, nicole dobrowolski
<fuzzybluemonkeys@...> wrote:
>~negation: the free morpheme ‘neh’ can be used separately to mean
>‘no’ or ‘not’, but it can also be placed at the beginning of another
>free morpheme to create an opposite meaning.
>everything- kube, nothing- nehkube
It's lexicalized, I guess?
I mean, 'not everything' is not immediately equivalent to 'nothing'...
Basilius
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