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Re: Negation?

From:Carlos Thompson <carlos_thompson@...>
Date:Thursday, July 8, 1999, 13:26
Christophe Grandsire wrote:

> What I would like to know is whether there are languages that
don't have
> such negations, I mean a language that has to use a different affirmative > (at least in structure) assertion to negate another one.
Probably this is not quite what you were asking but Colombian Signed Language has two different words (signs) for "can" and "cannot". This feature among many other positive-negative modal pairs are being borrowed into Chleweyish. -- Carlos Th <-- BEGIN CONLANG CODE HERE --> CEE l@ c?:R:S:H a+ d+ b* A E L- N3 Ic i@ p- m- n26:1d o- y0 fonno chleweye <-- END CONLANG CODE HERE -->