summary negated questions exclamations two weeks ago posted query two subjects looking languages 1 contrary use negated interrogatives like look nt john order express positive expectation 2 negated whexclamations like german du nicht alles weisst lit nt know serbocroatian sta nije sve doziveo lit nt live refer positive negative fact first wish thank following colleagues contributions suzanne albrecht sanabria zedat fuberlin de gisle andersen henga alf uib birgitta englund dimitrova birgitta englund tolk su se frederik fouvry fouvry llsun4 essex ac uk keith goeringer keg violet berkeley edu michael israel israel ling ucsd edu dalina kallulli dalina kallulli avh unit jussi karlgren jussi sics se e h klein v laaken klein let rug nl james kirchner jpkirchner aol com randy lapolla hslapolla ccvax sinica edu tw pierre larrivee aaa552 agora ulaval ca bert peeters bert peeters modlang utas edu au francisco raga raga vents uji es alexandr rosen alexandr rosen ff cuni cz cristina sanz sanzc gusun acc georgetown edu karen stanley karen _ stanley cpcc cc nc us jan vorster vorsterj mtb und ac za ton van der wouden vdwouden let rug nl deborah yeager kyeager prism nmt edu ning zhang zning epas utoronto ca languages received information afrikaans albanian catalan chinese czech english dutch norwegean spanish swedish yucatec maya additional languages named use negated questions like look nt john possible apache navajo still examples found far negated whexclamations interesting exist languages native speakers asked far convinced examples english spanish cf nt get report finished time karen stanley cuanto tendre que sufrir hasta conseguirlo cristina sanz type construction obviously found much languages assumed seems old fashened wide spread still exists anybody comes think one language allows type utterance still collecting grateful help get question negated questions whexclamations work dealing paper mine published glad mail anybody interested afraid german thanks helped please feel free contact questions elke hentschel