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French 'Si'
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| Author: | Ira Noveck | |
| Submitter Email: | click here to access email | |
| Linguistic LingField(s): |
Language Documentation
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| Summary: |
For Query: Linguist 11.2201
Hello, I am grateful to the 40 or so people who responded to this query. Here is a brief summary of the replies: The following languages were reported (with confidence) to have an equivalent to ''Si'' in French: German ''doch'' Dutch ''jawel'' ''Danish Norwegian'' ''jo''' Swedish ''jo'' Icelandic ''ju''' Finnish ''Kyll?p?'' Hungarian ''dehogynem'' Sorbian ''ju'' Japanese ''iie'' Occitan (related to catalan) ''hoc'' Arabic ''balaa'' stress on first syllable Eastern Armenian ''inchu che'' or ''her che'' Other possibilities are Korean and perhaps Portuguese (''sim'', at least in some circumstances). Interestingly, Quebecois French does NOT have ''Si'' and a forerunner to Catalan DID (''hoc'') but does not now. I learned that references conerning this question are Emily Pope: Questions and Answers in English, Mouton, 1976 and there is some information on the question from one of the respondents (Bob Morris Jones) -- Welsh: The Welsh Answering System, Mouton de Gruyter 1999, pp. 36-41. I would like to thank the following people who (easily) identified themselves: Bill Palmer, Bob Morris Jones, Bruno Estigarribia, Catherine Walter, Christopher Miller, Daniel Buncic, Ernest N. McCarus, foxmb@georgetown.edu, Frank Joosten, Gary H. Toops, Geoffrey Sampson, Hans-Werner Hatting, Johannes Heinecke, Hank Mooney, John Goldsmith, Karine Megerdoomian, Kevin R. Gregg, Laurence Horn, Laurent Gautier, Liesbeth Degand, Madalena Cruz-Ferreira, Mark A. Mandel, Martin Forst, Mar?a In?s Van Messem, Michael L. Mazzola, Michael Swan, Nancy Salay, Nancy Stenson, Patrick Grommes, Regina Weinert, Rachel Ricarda (?), Raija Solatie, Rick Mc Callister, Wolfgang Schellinger, Bill Fletcher, Bill Morris, zappy Thank you all for a very useful and enlightening experience. Ira Noveck Ira Noveck Institut des Sciences Cognitives CNRS 67 Blvd. Pinel 69675 Bron FRANCE Tel. (de la France): 04 37 91 12 68 Tel. (from abroad): + 33 4 37 91 12 68 http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/nov/novmenu.htm http://www.isc.cnrs.fr/nov/novmenuen.htm |
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| LL Issue: | 12.259 | |
| Date Posted: | 31-Jan-2001 | |
| Original Query: | Read original query | |
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