Re: -nakereba[ikenai/naranai]

From: Dan Rempel (hurty_at_flurty)
Date: 08/01/04 

Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 08:57:22 -0700

chance wrote:

> "Bart Mathias" <bartmathias@verizon.net> wrote
>
>
>>Linguists take it as almost axiomatic that if there are two forms, then
>>there are two meanings. I remember Bernard Bloch once saying that the
>>only problem with that notion was that no one had figured out the
>>difference between "furze" and "gorse" yet. But I don't remember him
>>claiming that any particular person used both words at random.
>>
>>(Another problem that has bothered me is the difference between, say,
>>"He's not here" and "He isn't here." I wish I could take your attitude
>>about it; it wouldn't bother me any more.)
>
>
> Are you bothered by 'What I'm gonna do!' and 'What am I going to do!'
> and also by Japanese saying 'taiyo' while Amercians say 'the sun'?

I think Bart's point (please correct me if I'm wrong) was that both
forms have a contraction, and are in some sense informal, but they occur
in differrent places: what's the difference?

Dan

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