Re: Looking for a term
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, September 2, 2006, 18:21 |
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On 9/2/06, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
> * Scotto Hlad said on 2006-09-02 09:27:29 +0200
> > I'm looking for a term to describe a particular form in an a priori language
> > I'm creating.
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> This very much looks like Basque, except the "auxiliary" follows the
> meaning-carrying verb in Basque.
And it reminded me of negation in Finnish, which IIRC uses an
inflected-for-person auxiliary to indicate the negation followed by a
not-inflected-for-person form of the meaning verb. (I'm not sure which
of the two is inflected for tense or aspect.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>