Re: Volcae and Volsci

From: tgpedersen
Message: 57108
Date: 2008-04-10

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@...>
wrote:
>
> On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:47:04 -0000, "tgpedersen"
> <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> >I think the Afrikaans double negative can be explained from Dutch
alone.
>
> My three-year old daughter has it, and she's been exposed to
> no Afrikaans and hardly any French at all:
>
> "ik bennie baby niet" (MariƩn, 8-4-2008).
>

But is that because she takes after her logical father and knows that
a double negative is a positive? ;-)


Torsten