"wear" and "put on"

[john at research.haifa.ac.il]

I was not claiming that e.g. put on and wear are identical other
than aspect, I just meant to say that in many languages in many usages
the same verb would be used in different aspectual forms.
John Myhill







Quoting ?sten Dahl <oesten at ling.su.se>:

> What Steve says is correct, but there are cases where there is a difference.
> "The teddy bear wore pink pyjamas" does not imply "The teddy bear put on
> pink pyjamas". That is, the relation between "put on" and "wear" is
> different from that between "fall asleep" and "sleep", in that there is an
> intentional (agentive) component in "put on".
> - ?sten Dahl
>
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu
> > [mailto:funknet-bounces at mailman.rice.edu] On Behalf Of
> > Salinas17 at aol.com
> > Sent: den 11 maj 2005 16:04
> > To: funknet at mailman.rice.edu
> > Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] "wear" and "put on"
> >
> > In a message dated 5/11/05 7:22:32 AM, oesten at ling.su.se writes:
> > << But "put on" and "wear" differ in that "putting on"
> > denotes an action which is rather the starting-point of
> > "wearing". It is true that "put on" is telic, but you cannot
> > simply state that it is the telic counterpart of "wear".
> > Perhaps "put on" could be said to be inchoative or
> > ingressive, but if you look closely at it "put on" is not
> > quite synonymous to "start wearing" either. >>
> >
> > In the sense of the story, "put on" does seem to be
> > synonymous to "start wearing".  The brother-in-law's
> > command/request jumped the inchoative step.  In the usage
> > described, there appears to be no way that his wife could wear the
> > dress without putting it on.   Both putting on and wearing
> > are future events.  In
> > English, the two words can be used alternatively to convey
> > the same intended result -- "put on that red dress, mama,
> > 'cause we're going out tonight", "wear that tonight"
> >
> > Steve Long
> >
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