LINGUIST List 8.848

Tue Jun 10 1997

Qs: Afrikaans, Spanish in US, -gry-

Editor for this issue: Ann Dizdar <annlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. ferdinand de haan, Q: Afrikaans particle
2. James W. Crawford, The Future of Spanish in the USA
3. alan harris, -gry- in English

Dear linguists,

Could anyone tell me whether the Afrikaans particle "glo" can have an
evidential interpretation. I am referring to its use in the following
sentence:

Sy boeke was glo baie populer vroeer.	(diacritics omitted)

This sentence came from the USENET groep
soc.culture.south-africa.afrikaans. From the context (which I stupidly
neglected to write down) I inferred an evidential reading, but I want
to check it with naive speakers and experts. A grammar search
(Donaldson's) yielded no result.

Thank you very much,

Ferdinand


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Ferdinand de Haan Department of Linguistics
 University of New Mexico
 Albuquerque, NM 87131

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Dear Friends:
	I am forwarding a query from Dr. Max Castro, a Miami-based
sociologist and language rights activist. Any help you can provide him
would be most appreciated.

Jim Crawford
73261.1120compuserve.com

>Dear Jim:
>
>I am writing an article that will be published in VISTA
>magazine on the fate of the Spanish language in the US in the 21st 
>Century.
>
>My central question is: Will Spanish, like German, flourish for quite
>a while and then fade? Or will it break the pattern followed by so
>many immigrant languages and become established in some fashion, say
>as enduring second language?
>
>
>For possible quotation, I would like to know your views on this as
>well as those of the distinguished group of experts and advocates on
>your email mailing list. I wonder if you could forward my request to
>your list. I am anxious to know what people think on this subject.
>They can respond directly to me at
>
>	MCASTROumiami.ir.miami.edu 
>
>Thanks,
>Max
>
>Max J. Castro, Ph.D.
>Senior Research Associate
>North-South Center
>University of Miami
>
>VISTA magazine is a Hispanic-oriented publication issued monthly. Over
>a million copies are distributed as newspaper inserts or by mail in
>areas with high Hispanic concentration. It is a kind of Hispanic
>analog of Parade magazine. 

Q: "'angry"--"'hungry" : what are the other words that end in -gry- 
(ngry?) (with first syllable stress?) in English ? TIA, ach

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