someone/somebody, etc.

[Lynne Murphy]

Thank you very much!  Can you give me bibliographic details on the
R-/ K-T article?

Thanks!

>Also not quite what was asked for but, Helena Raumolin-Brunberg and Leena
>Kahlas-Tarkka (1997) "Indefinite Pronouns with Singular Human Reference"
>trace the historical development of -body -man and -one compounds from OE to
>the 18th century.  According to them, Quirk et al. (1985) and Jespersen
>(1914) claim -body and -one compounds are identical in meaning although
>Bolinger (1976) "argues that there is a subtle difference in meaning between
>the series, ONE and its compounds being marked for closeness to the speaker
>and individualization, whereas BODY is unmarked in these senses."
>R-B and K-T suggest that there are no semantic differences, though
>syntactically there are, since only -one compounds can be used in partitives
>(anyone of the students / *anybody of the students).
>
>Johanna -- a student--but not someone/somebody volunteering for this
>project.
>
>Johanna Wood
>Teaching Associate
>Department of English
>Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-0302
>
>>Since there has been no response to this, maybe someone/somebody
>>(probably a student) should create a source. My own pragmatic approach
>>to such questions, as a lexicographer specializing in the usage aspect
>>of words, has been to draw up a concordance of a pair in question (using
>>a good contemporary database, not something historical like what the OED
>>disk could generate) and note the semantic, syntactic, and other
>>differences between the members of the pair. This is just a pragmatic or
>>working solution to the problem, but Lynne wants something more
>>theoretical, I presume.
>>Tom
>>
>>THOMAS M. PAIKEDAY, lexicographer since 1964
>>Latest work: "The User's (tm) Webster," Lexicography, Inc., 2000
>>ISBN 0-920865-03-8 from: utpbooks at utpress.utoronto.ca
>>
>>Lynne Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>  Does anyone (or anybody) know of any source on semantic/pragmatic
>>>  differences between the -body and -one words?  (somebody/someone,
>>>  everybody/everyone, anybody/anyone, nobody/no one)
>>>
>>>  Thanks in advance,
>>>  Lynne
>>>  --
>>>  M. Lynne Murphy
>>>  Lecturer in Linguistics
>>>  School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
>>>  University of Sussex
>>>  Brighton BN1 3AN    UK
>>>  phone:  +44(0)1273-678844
>>>  fax:    +44(0)1273-671320
>>

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M. Lynne Murphy
Lecturer in Linguistics
School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 3AN    UK
phone:  +44(0)1273-678844
fax:    +44(0)1273-671320