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Or perhaps a historical movement towards double negation. Or due to the influence of another (African, Amerind, French?) language?

not likely, those who use such constructions are often uneducated and receive minimal contact with such other languages, there is little chance of influence

nebula wind phone wrote:The other interesting thing about French is that it's drifting back towards single negatives: from "ne ___" to "ne ___ pas" and now to "___ pas" with "pas" reanalyzed as the main negative marker.

of course the academy won't OK this, it's exclusively vernacular

on clusters like "nk" as it realised with a velar /N/ or was it /n/

could you use X-sampa?

And, to top it off, l+k was not a legal consonant cluster in PA.

what were the legal clusters in PA?

glad to see people contributing to this thread again

thought this would be a good thread to revive.

*not really sure if my question belongs on this topic though*

Where can i find (or who knows) what phonetic restraints and consonant clusters are allowed in the algic and algonquian languages, specifically proto-algonquian?

I have heard about some languages that have very interesting verbs of giving; what do you all know about these?

tuomas koukkari wrote: it looks like this could be some kind of aspectual distinction, something which Russian seems to be fond of.

What are other aspects that russian uses?

I always that that this french form of the verb "louer" was crazy: loueait.

It has five different vowels in a row; this would never fly in english!