Re: Auxiliary verbs

On 5/6/06, Alain Lemaire <alargule@...> wrote:
> And: could somebody give me some examples of how it is (not) being done in
> other (preferably non-European) languages - or (your own) con-langs?
Not my conlang as such, but in Klingon, you have the verbal suffix
{-be'}, which negates whatever immediately precedes it. So, together
with the type-2 verbal suffix {-nIS} "to need", you have:

    bImejnIS
    you.leave.need
    You must go/You have to go

    bImejnISbe'
    you.leave.need.not
    You don't have to go

    bImejbe'nIS
    you.leave.not.need
    You must not go.

Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>