nasality and negation

James Gair jwg2 at CORNELL.EDU
Fri Aug 31 14:38:26 UTC 2007


I don't recall anyone mentioning Dravidian. For example, Tamil has  
several negative forms, including sentence negator illai:
  pooka illai ' it  doesn't go' and affixal negation -aa- (+ person  
and number)  : pokaatu 'it won't go', as well as maaTT (+ person and  
number) pooka maaTTeen 'I won't go
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