Where's where

[Anie Montaut]

nor French...

Richard Madsen a écrit :

>Dear all,
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>to the best of my knowledge neither Hungarian, nor Danish uses
>interrogatives as emphatic negators.
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>Best
>Richard
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>David Gil <gil at EVA.MPG.DE> den 19. marts 2005 kl. 13:33 +0000 skrev:
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>>Dear all,
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>>As we have seen, there has been a minor deluge of reports of languages
>>in which 'where' (or some other content interrogative word) is used to
>>express emphatic negation.  But as is typically the case, nobody has
>>thought of offering data of a negative character, to say that "Well in
>>this language there's nothing of the sort".  Given that the attestations
>>of the phenomena in the LINGTYP discussion so far would seem to span a
>>single isogloss extending from German through the Middle-East and South
>>Asia all the way to Indonesia, I am curious to know whether the absence
>>of any attestations from, say, sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, the
>>Americas, and various other regions is reflective of a real absence, or,
>>as is often the case, an absence of attention on our part as linguists.
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>>Hence this call: please send me examples of languages in which (you are
>>sure that) the phenomenon of 'where' or some other content interrogative
>>word being used to express emphatic negation is NOT present.  One such
>>language is English.  Please let me know of others.  Of course, I would
>>still be interested in examples of other languages which have the
>>phenomenon.
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>>If I get enough responses, I will post a summary (perhaps even a map).
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>>David
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>>--
>>David Gil
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>>[currently in Indonesia]
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