Re: Sad translation

Really?  Based on mental space mechanics a la Gilles Fauconnier, it
seems very possible for "nobody" to do something -- the something
occurs in the mental space of the negation.  Perhaps Charyan verbs
must be marked with a negation marker to be used in negation-spaces at
all, unlike English verbs, which don't care.

Ed Heil ------------------------------- edheil@postmark.net
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:

> On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>
> >
> > Turantos luan.za  do!
> > nobody   love.EXP 1sMGH
> >
> > Nobody has ever loved me!
> >
>
> Aya! A real mistake in Denden (and those are hard to
> make...) I'd better say:
>
> turantos tau.luan.za  do!
> nobody   NEG.love.EXP 1sMGH
>
> The first version simply doesn't make sense to a Charyan:
> how can 'nobody' actually do something positive, like loving.
> Where there's no-one to do something, nothing gets done, so
> the verb must be negated.
>
> I must remember to write a paragraph on nobody, everybody
> and negation in my grammar sometime soon... After I've implemented
> the first draft of the datamodel for Kura, which draft I finished
> tonight.
>
> Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
>