Re: Negation?

At 19:57 06/07/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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),
>>
>> 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.
>
        Exactly! I understand that I was not very clear (damn English!). What I
seek is negation without a word or words that have the concept of 'not' in
them, like my use of 'to refuse to' (it's very affirmative, believe me!) as
a negation.

>Nicole
>
>
>>
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