Re: Auxiliary verbs

From: "Philip Newton" <philip.newton@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 9:59 PM

> To express "You must (not go)", I'd say "Du darfst nicht
> gehen"  =
> "You may not go" -- but the converse of that is "Du darfst
> gehen" =
> "You may go", with a different modal verb. So in that
> sense, "have to"
> has only one negating form, one which negates the modal.
Since I found this to be more sensible than what English
does, I copied it for Ayeri:

  You must go    = No sahaevang   (must go.2s.AGT)
  You may  go    = Kila sahaevang (may go.2s.AGT)

  You mustn't go = Kila sahoyevang (may go.NEG.2s.AGT)

The literal use of "mustn't" in Ayeri would imply "needn't"
instead, so there are actually two forms that express
"needn't", _no -oy-_ and _ilta -oy-_.

Carsten

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