nasality and negation

[Kaoru Horie]

Dear Eduardo,

I remember having read a similar statement, possibly in Talmy Givon's 1978 paper.
Horn's book may also provide some relevant information.

Kaoru Horie
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*Talmy Givon. (1978) Negation in language: Pragmatics, function, ontology. 
In Peter Cole,
editor, Syntax and Semantics, Volume 9 (Pragmatics), pages 69-112. Academic 
Press, New York.

*Horn, L.R. (1989) A natural history of negation. University of Chicago 
Press, Chicago.

At 18:33 07/08/29 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>I remember having read somewhere, quite a while ago, about a 
>cross-linguistic tendency for negative morphemes to present similar forms 
>(involving nasal phonemes) in unrelated languages.  I unfortunately am 
>unable to recall where I read this, and I couldn't find any reference to 
>this subject among my textbooks or class notes.
>
>Could anyone help refresh my memory?  Any bibliographical references 
>would be very much appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Eduardo