LINGUIST List 15.2911
Thu Oct 14 2004
Qs: Perception Verbs; American Vernacular
Editor for this issue: Steven Moran <stevelinguistlist.org>
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1. Jean-Charles
Khalifa,
Perception Verbs
2. Jess
Echord,
Vernacular of the 1930s and 40s America
Message 1: Perception Verbs
Date: 14-Oct-2004
From: Jean-Charles Khalifa <jck
ricky.univ-poitiers.fr>
Subject: Perception Verbs
I'm doing a piece of research on perception verbs, and amidst other wild
speculations, I was wondering whether there were any languages that would have 2
or even 3 verbs meaning, say SEE or HEAR, according to the ontological nature of
the complement, e.g. :
a) I saw / heard the train (''object'', in, inter al., Lyons' terms)
b) I saw / heard John entering the room (''event'')
c) I saw / heard that John had resigned (''proposition'')
Thanks for your help, I'll post a summary if I get enough interesting answers.
Jean-Charles Khalifa
Dpt of English Studies
University of Poitiers (France)
Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
Message 2: Vernacular of the 1930s and 40s America
Date: 13-Oct-2004
From: Jess Echord <jechord
troyst.edu>
Subject: Vernacular of the 1930s and 40s America
An associate and I are currently reviewing presentations by past presidents of
the Southern Historical Association from 1935 to 1944. It is our endeavor to
identify words, terms, or phrases that may have been unique during these ten
years and compare them with presentations made by SHA presidents during the last
ten years (1993 - 2003). To aid in our research, we are trying to find any
written references that describe the usage of words, terms, phrases that were in
vogue during that period but have fallen out of common use by the present. If
anyone is familiar with any publications in this regard, we would appreciate the
author, title, and publication date. Your assistance is appreciated.
Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
Subject Language(s): English Language Code: ENG
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