LINGUIST List 14.588

Sat Mar 1 2003

Qs: English Judgement Needed, Discourse Markers

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  1. Hans Prufer, Meaning Analysis of a Sentence
  2. Jill Bergman, Discourse markers

Message 1: Meaning Analysis of a Sentence

 Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:49:02 +0000
From: Hans Prufer <hpruferhotmail.com>
Subject: Meaning Analysis of a Sentence

Dear Native Speakers of English,

Could you please let me know what you think of the following sentence?
I'd rather not give any details on why I would be asking this in order
to rule out any bias based on my explanation. Your reply will be
greatly appreciated and I will post the summary of my inquiry.

The man gives a dog a water. 

Thank you.

Hans Prufer
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Message 2: Discourse markers

 Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 04:44:55 +0000
From: Jill Bergman <jillb18hotmail.com>
Subject: Discourse markers

Hi! I wrote to the Linguistlist a few days ago asking for a list of
discourse markers and received many excellent replies. I was wondering
if the person who sent me an extensive list of discourse markers could
write to me again because a need a reference and a cannot find her
mail. (It was in PDF-format) (93 pages) (A database of discourse
markers it was called)

	Thank you
	Best regards Jill Bergman 
	
	Subject-Language: English; Code: ENG
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