Re: Not going to the store, was: going without "without"

On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Irina Rempt-Drijfhout wrote:

... and again following up on my own post ...

> Only the subject negated:
>
> ? Anini nalea  dinyes     le  denayn
>   1p-S  none-A shop-ill-s RFL put-1p-PRS
>   "None of us are going to the store"
>
> I'm not sure whether this is grammatical; probably not. It would mean
> that there's a specific nobody who is going.
The grammatical way (that makes sense) to negate the subject is, of
course:

  Ni  anini alea  dinyes     (na) le  denayn
  NEG 1p-S  all-A shop-ill-s NEG  RFL put-1p-PRS
  "Not all of us are going to the store"

with optional _na_ for the verb.

This means that some of us are going, and others aren't.

   Irina


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