Re: Negative constructions.

[Andrew Smith <hobbit@mail.earthlight.co.nz>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Padraic Brown wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> Question: if this perhaps is some sort of Celtic feature that has made
its
> way into the continental Romance languages, should it not also end up in
> Brithenig.  [Kernu already makes use of ne...rhen for negation, but in
all
> honesty this is as much a tendency towards excessive negation as any
> (hertofore unwot of) underlying Celtic feature.]
>
This feature is a part of Brithenig.  Brithenig uses (nasal)...rhen
similar to the ne...(emphatic) found in Welsh and the Romance languages.
It also has (nasal)...nonc.
>
> Any thoughts on how this could/should fit?  It makes perfect sense to me
> that native speakers might use such turns of phrase as emphatics; but
what
> about the possibility of making it systemic (ie., more or less
required)?
> 
> ... ill ces tostad ti blegh, no?
> ooo!, eo n'ai mannugad mech alch clas di ces tostad in -- eo ne sab
puith
> cant muis! ...
>
It took me several minutes looking at this to translate it.  I'm getting
rusty in my own language!
>
> 
And now I'm pleased to announce the Brithenig distribution list has been
updated.  John Cowan joins us.  This gives us all an opportunity to say:
Benwenid, Welcome.
For your address book our list is now:
Padraic Brown	agricola@wam.umd.edu 
John Cowan	cowan@locke.ccil.org, 
Andrew Smith	hobbit@earthlight.co.nz, 
Peter Skye	pcskye@poconos.com, 
Ray Brown	raybrown@macline.co.uk 
John Schilke 	schilkej@ohsu.EDU

We are growing.

- andrew.

Andrew Smith                                  <hobbit@earthlight.co.nz>
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