LINGUIST List 10.1646

Sun Oct 31 1999

Qs: Danish Infinitives, Conceptualization of Women

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  • Uri Horesh, Danish Infinitives
  • zmaalej, How Women are Conceptualised Again!

    Message 1: Danish Infinitives

     Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 21:50:57 +0200
    From: Uri Horesh <urihorespost.tau.ac.il>
    Subject: Danish Infinitives


    Dear Linguists,

    The following query was sent by Dr. Outi Bat-El of Tel Aviv University. Could you kindly reply directly to her at <obatelpost.tau.ac.il>.

    Thank you, Uri Horesh



    According to Anderson (1992 and earlier studies) Danish infinitives end in a schwa suffix and the imperatives are formed by truncating this schwa. Do ALL Danish infinitives end in a schwa? If not, what is the imperative corresponding to an infinitive not ending in a schwa? Does this group consists of a few isolated verbs or is it a rather large group of verbs?

    Message 2: How Women are Conceptualised Again!

     Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 19:53:08 +0100
    From: zmaalej <zmaalejgnet.tn>
    Subject: How Women are Conceptualised Again!


    Dear colleagues,

    A few weeks ago, I posted a query to some linguistics lists about the way women are conceptualised in various languages. Many of you kindly sent me invaluable contributions. Now, I am in the process of writing, and data about some languages is needed for the conclusions to the paper to be representative and reliable. I have organised the data in tables according to source domain. If you are interested in sharing data from fifteen languages, and contributing missing metaphors from your own language, please contact me, and I will send you the data to be supplemented as attachment. In anticipation of your collaboration, please receive my thanks in advance.

    Dr Zouhair Maalej, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chair, Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, Tunis-Manouba, 2010, TUNISIA.

    Office Phone: (+216) 1 600 700 (Ext. 174) Office Fax: (+216) 1 520 910 Home Tel/Fax: (+216) 1 362 871 E-mail: zmaalejgnet.tn URL: http://simsim.rug.ac.be/ZMaalej