films

[Charles Watkins]

I've come in late on the discussion. Has anyone mentioned Dances with
Wolves? Particularly good in the scenes involving the reacquisition a
forgotten mother tongue.

As regards Yoda; is he the small hairy one with pointed ears?  Watching the
end of Episode 1 with my son I have just been, and the distinct memory of
OSV (if the modal/auxiliary is the verb and the lexical verb considered part
of the complement) have.

Charles Watkins.


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Steven Pinker <pinker at media.mit.edu>
À : info-childes at mail.talkbank.org <info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>
Date : vendredi 6 septembre 2002 06:51
Objet : RE: films


>My Fair Lady is a wonderful film, but in some ways the 1938 black and white
>film adaptation of Pygmalion is even more satisfying. It doesn't have the
>singing and dancing, but the dialogue and scene structure are closer to
>those of Shaw's original play, and as a result it is wittier and subtler
>(particularly the scene in which Eliza shocks the stuffy aristocrats by
>using lower-class epithets with upper-class pronunciation). It is done in
>the style of the best English theatre and features a terrific performance
by
>Leslie Howard, less hammy than Rex Harrison's Higgins. (Howard went on to
>play Ashley Wilkes in Gone With the Wind the following year.)
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>Perhaps Yoda in Star Wars could be used to introduce students to VSO
>languages.
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>--Steve Pinker
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