Re: OT: Negation as the indicative standard

En réponse à Andreas Johansson :


>Never, heard of any, and would be surprised to learn there is one, but one
>should never underestimate ALF.
Well, the closest I can see to an anadewism is from a book of mine, which 
claims that in a language of India (called Koya), the negation of "can" (a 
mood in that language) is marked only by the absence of the mood marker.

It also refers to another language which has the strange habit to negate 
words that would in many other languages be considered to be the "negative" 
side of an opposite pair to render their "positive" side (for instance, 
"big" in that language is rendered as "unsmall" while most speakers of 
other languages would rather consider "big" to be the "positive" side of 
the "big/small" pair).

Not exactly an anadewism, but such things do happen in a small scale it 
seems :) .

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.