Re: Negation?

>   <378410da.1b5d03-@...> wrote:
> original article:http://www.egroups.com/group/conlang/?start=27675
> > Patrick Dunn wrote:
> > > "It didn't rain yesterday."  "The sun shone yesterday."
> >
> > What if all you know is that it didn't rain?  That is, you didn't
know
> > if it was cloudy or sunny?
>
> You could describe how you came by the knowledge that it didn't rain,
> e.g. "the ground was dry, and if it had rained, it would have been
wet"
> -- though I'm not sure if you could include that "if" clause in a
> negativeless language since it's a contrary-to-fact condition.
In answer to the question "Did it rain yesterday?", how would you reply
"I don't know."?

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Fabian
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