negative primary verbs

[Randall]

Please remove me from the list! I never applied for it.


Randall


----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin P Masica" <dacotah at MWT.NET>
To: <LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: negative primary verbs


> Sounds like an interesting and testable hypothesis to me. Let's test it!
(I
> can think of some exceptions to Hyp 8 and 9 already,in Dravidian. But Hyp
7
> may hold.)
>
> Colin Masica
>
> > From: Paul Hopper <ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
> > Reply-To: Paul Hopper <ph1u at ANDREW.CMU.EDU>
> > Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 15:30:40 -0500
> > To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> > Subject: Re: negative primary verbs
> >
> > Dear ALT List,
> >
> > Charles Ferguson in a 1972 article "Being in Bengali, with a note on
> > Amharic" (John Verhaar, ed. The Verb 'BE' and Its Synonyms, part 5,
75-114,
> > pub. D. Reidel) hyothesized the following universals, which may be of
> > relevance in this exchange (Ex is an Existential "verb", and Cop is a
> > copular "verb", though of course the term "verb" may not be
appropriate):
> >
> > Hyp. 7 p. 109: If an Ex or Cop is grammatically unique, i.e. lacks
> > criterial features of any major word class in the language, it will tend
to
> > have a grammatically unique negative, i.e. the negative will not be
formed
> > the way other negatives in the language are formed.
> >
> > Hyp. 8 p. 110: If Ex and Cop are lexically separate in the present
tense,
> > they tend to share a single past tense.
> >
> > Hyp. 9 p. 110 The negative of past forms of Ex and/or Cop tends to be
more
> > regular in formation than the present-tense negative.
> >
> > Paul Hopper
> >
> > ---------------------------
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> >
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