--- Axiem <axiem@...> wrote:
> My Symbolic Logic professor wondered something
> to those of us in the
> class interested in linguistics the other day. He
> notes that English, along
> with a lot of other languages, states indicative
> sentences in the
> affirmative "I went to the store" "It is red", and
> that to negate a
> sentence, an extra particle (morpheme?) must be
> added. In English, it's
> not:: "I did not go to the store" "it is not red"
> (forgiving change in
> conjugation).
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Any verb that has an opposite could be used that way:
It is cloudy vs it is not cloudy
It is not clear vs it is clear
--gary