Re: Negation?
| From: | nicole <now-im-nothing@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, July 6, 1999, 23:57 |
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Nik Taylor wrote:
>
> Christophe Grandsire wrote:
> > Well, I'm not very clear I think. So I'm going to explain it better:
> > - In English, verbs (assertions) are all negated by 'not' with an auxiliary,
> > - In French, we use 'ne', with 'pas', 'plus', etc...
> > - In Spanish, there is 'no',
> > - In Japanese, you use -nai or -masen (and compounds of them),
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> In Finnish, you have an inflected verb to negate another, essentially
> something like
> I-do-not see
> to negate
> I-see
My conlang does exactly that, but I don't think this is what Christophe
meant, was it? Because I always thought of the inflected verb as an
auxiliary negative, with the rough meaning of "to not do", and he's not
really asking for anything with the concept of not, if I understood
correctly.
Nicole