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<DIV>...nor Dutch, ...</DIV>
<DIV>Best, Casper</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- <BR><B>Van:</B> Discussion
List for ALT namens Richard Madsen <BR><B>Verzonden:</B> za
19-3-2005 16:05 <BR><B>Aan:</B> LINGTYP@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
<BR><B>CC:</B> <BR><B>Onderwerp:</B> Re: Where's where<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>Dear all,<BR><BR>to the best of my knowledge neither
Hungarian, nor Danish uses<BR>interrogatives as emphatic
negators.<BR><BR>Best<BR>Richard<BR><BR>David Gil <gil@EVA.MPG.DE> den
19. marts 2005 kl. 13:33 +0000 skrev:<BR>>Dear
all,<BR>><BR>><BR>>As we have seen, there has been a minor deluge of
reports of languages<BR>>in which 'where' (or some other content
interrogative word) is used to<BR>>express emphatic negation. But as
is typically the case, nobody has<BR>>thought of offering data of a
negative character, to say that "Well in<BR>>this language there's nothing
of the sort". Given that the attestations<BR>>of the phenomena in the
LINGTYP discussion so far would seem to span a<BR>>single isogloss
extending from German through the Middle-East and South<BR>>Asia all the
way to Indonesia, I am curious to know whether the absence<BR>>of any
attestations from, say, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, the<BR>>Americas,
and various other regions is reflective of a real absence, or,<BR>>as is
often the case, an absence of attention on our part as
linguists.<BR>><BR>><BR>>Hence this call: please send me examples of
languages in which (you are<BR>>sure that) the phenomenon of 'where' or
some other content interrogative<BR>>word being used to express emphatic
negation is NOT present. One such<BR>>language is English.
Please let me know of others. Of course, I would<BR>>still be
interested in examples of other languages which have
the<BR>>phenomenon.<BR>><BR>><BR>>If I get enough responses, I
will post a summary (perhaps even a
map).<BR>><BR>><BR>>David<BR>><BR>><BR>>--<BR>>David
Gil<BR>><BR>><BR>>[currently in
Indonesia]<BR>><BR>><BR>>Department of Linguistics<BR>>Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<BR>>Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103
Leipzig, Germany<BR>><BR>><BR>>Telephone: 49-341-3550321<BR>>Fax:
49-341-3550119<BR>>Email: gil@eva.mpg.de<BR>>Webpage: <A
href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/">http://www.eva.mpg.de/~gil/</A><BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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