Re: Verb mood and tense

At 16:30 27/01/00 -0500, you wrote:
>> -s the speaker heard about it and thinks it likely but doesn't know
>
>Quotative/Hearsay
>
        I really have to remember this word, quotative. I'm thinking of using
evidentials in Itakian (yes, I'm really putting everything I never tried
before in this language. With nominal classes, trigger system and
evidentials, it's gonna be a real monster :) ).

>
>AFMCL, amman iar has all of these and more.  amman iar has two ways of
>forming negatives according to its scope.  To negate a proposition, the
>auxiliary verb is prefixed with the negative u-.  To negate the modality of
>a proposition the sentential negative or must initiate the sentence. The
>negatives yo8u describe above are the latter type. Thus
>
        Are there languages that have only this kind of negation, or only the
other kind? That seems rather nice (yes, it's also for my conlang, as with
the way I negate verbs in Itakian, I think only one of those negations will
be possible, though I don't know which one right now :) ).

        And what do you think about the fact that the negative mood can be used
for irrealis? How would you negate an irrealis sentence then?

                                                        Christophe Grandsire
                                                |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G.

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