LINGUIST List 15.498

Fri Feb 6 2004

Qs: Corpus Ling; Bounded Path Readings in Greek

Editor for this issue: Steve Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>

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1. N o s t a l g i a, Query: Linguistic analyses of online congressional records
2. Emma Thomas, bounded path readings in Greek

I am currently looking for various analyses of (national)
congressional records. I know that Hansard Corpus, released from LDC,
has been heavily used for machine translation research in
computational linguistics. But now with a number of on-line search
sites available for congressional records in different countries in
the world, I expect there must be some interesting linguistic analyses
of those records from. If anyone is aware of any type of linguistic
research (sociolinguistics, variation studies, pragmatics, discourse
analysis, lexical analysis, to name a few!) based on congrressional
records, please let me know with relevant references. Summary will be
posted upon request. Thanks in advance.

Kenjiro Matsuda
Kobe Shoin Women's University
Kobe, Japan 

I'm interested in how the telicity (or the 'bounded path' reading) of
motion-to-goal expressions such as English (1) is expressed in
Greek. As I understand it, the most accurate translation of the
English sentence in (1) is as in (2). But I'm also informed that (3)
and (4) are possible translations of (1).

1) The baby crawled into the garden

2) To moro mpike mpousoulontas (mesa)ston kipo

3) To moro mpousoulise mesa ston kipo

4) To moro mpousoulise pros ton kipo

My questions are:

What's the difference in meaning (if any) between (2), (3) and (4)?

Is it possible for the preposition 'pros' ('towards'?) to have a bounded path reading?

Subject-Language: Greek; Code: GRK