Re: Russian "a" and Norwegian "ikke/ingen" (was: Re: Question about Latin.)
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, October 19, 2004, 19:20 |
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On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 08:58:19PM +0200, Daniel Asserbo wrote:
> >Both: 'I have no car', lit.: 'I have not car.'
I think the Scandinavian examples are actually identical in form is to
the English pair of phrases "I have no car" vs. "I don't have a car".
Both have the same meaning, but expressed via different syntactic
structures: one uses a quantifier meaning "zero" on the object, whilte
the other uses no qualifier and simply negates the verb.
I guess what makes it look odd from a French perspective is that in
French you apparently have to do both?
-Marcos
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