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Re: Uralic Negative Verbs (was RE: "to be" and not to be...)

From:Joe <joe@...>
Date:Tuesday, March 28, 2006, 16:56
Rob Haden wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:18:07 +0300, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> >wrote: > > > >>It just occurs to me that the negative verb of Uralic languages sort of >>counters this argument, but I don't know if any of them get by without a >>neutral copula. Since they're fairly inflecting & I think mostly pro-drop >>too, I'd however suspect not. >> >> > >Can the Finnish negative verb stand alone? How about the Estonian one? As >far as I know, they can't, but I could be wrong. > >
I think the Estonian one has pretty degraded into a negative particle, although I believe it still inflects for the Imperative.