[lojban] Re: 'Not' and Negation in Lojban (and Other Artificial Languages)

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On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 Jlsperanza@aol.com wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently researching H. P. Grice's dictum, in 'Logic and Conversation',
> that there are divergences between 'not' and '~' (Studies in the Way of
> Words, p. 22), and wonder if a specific study has been done on the different
> ways of expressing negation (or translating Latin 'non', or English 'not') in
> the various 'artificial languages', including Lojban. Any lead will be much
> appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> JL
> J L Speranza
> jlsperanza@aol.com


You might like to start at
http://www.lojban.org/publications/reference_grammar/chapter15.html
and feel free to inquire if you have any more questions.



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