Re: oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia

--- On Mon, 11/10/08, Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...> wrote:

> From: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud@...>
> Subject: Re: [tied] oldest places- and watername in Scandinavia
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, November 10, 2008, 2:41 PM
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> >
> ========
>
> 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.

I just used the term pour faute de mieux
I don't know what Uralists call that phenomenon