From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61519
Date: 2008-11-10
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From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> There are some things Uralic has in common with Basque such as the
> "negative" mood, etc. but I don't know if this is just typological or
> something of lexical origin --but see English don't/doesn't as a negative
> marker
>
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I would vote for a chance coincidence,
typological with no genetic meaning.
Mordvin can say af-ol-en : not + continuous past + me = I was not.
I disagree with the term "negative mood"
this is confusing formal contigencies with linguistic and semantic units.
A.