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

Rob Haden wrote:

>On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 00:18:07 +0300, John Vertical <johnvertical@...>
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>>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.
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>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.
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I think the Estonian one has pretty degraded into a negative particle,
although I believe it still inflects for the Imperative.