Re: Negation raising (was: introduction)

John Cowan wrote:


>Christophe Grandsire scripsit:
>
>> I think I don't need to give a translation :)))
>
>I point out this Christophe-ism, not in the spirit of correction, but
>rather in the spirit of letting the imagination run away with it.
>In English, "I think ..." raises negation from the embedded sentence
>to the matrix, so we express this as "I don't think I need ...".
>
In Kash, "to think" is probably the only verb that cannot be negated in such
a way.

Q. aka yarata ?  Is he coming?
A. mapila re ta yarata  ~colloq. pilami, ta (ya)rata 'I think [he isn't
coming]'
(*ta mapila.....  *ta pilami....)

You could negate pila in a sentence like, 'I wasn't thinking when I called
you a [expl. deleted]'.