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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Fritz,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The first thing that came to my mind is
the famous Greek proverb: Ho khronos farmakon estin (The time is the best medicine)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Or Russian <span class=SpellE>Tsypliat</span>
<span class=SpellE>po</span> <span class=SpellE>oseni</span> <span
class=SpellE>schitaiut</span> (It is worth to count <span class=SpellE>chikens</span>
at fall), there is no word ‘time’ here, but the concept of a period from spring
to fall and a concept of a <span class=SpellE>competion</span>.. <span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;mso-no-proof:yes'>Hayim Sheynin<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Fritz Goerling
[mailto:Fritz_Goerling@sil.org] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> </span></font><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span lang=HE dir=RTL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;
mso-bidi-language:HE'>å</span></font><span dir=LTR></span><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'><span dir=LTR></span>
17 </span></font><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=HE dir=RTL
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-language:HE'>ãöîáø</span></font><span
dir=LTR></span><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma'><span dir=LTR></span> 2004 07:09<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b>
lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Lexicog] semantics</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>I</span></font><font color=blue
face=Arial><span style='font-family:Arial;color:blue'> would be
interested in collocations, expressions, idioms and proverbs with
"time" </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>in languages other than
English.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>The contributions can be
about chronological time or other concepts of time.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Examples from English:</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>to waste, save, gain, lose time; time is money; time
will tell; time is on one's side;<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>to run out of time<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>German: "die Zeit heilt alle
Wunden" (time heals all wounds)<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Bible: "There is a
time for everything" (Ecclesiastes) </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 color=blue face=Arial><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Fritz Goerling</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>There was a posting yesterday in the Corpora-List
which referred to a </span></font></tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">term that I had not run across before, 'semantic
prosody'. The notion </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">is that some words collocate not just with
particular other words ('arm' </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">and 'akimbo'), but with semantic classes of words
('career' tends to </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">collate with words that have a positive sense,
whereas 'job' exhibits no </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">such tendency).</font></tt><br>
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<tt><font face="Courier New">I suspect this is a largely unexplored area of
lexicography, although I </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">could just be ignorant. At any rate, one of
the msgs in that list gave </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">a link to a recent on-line thesis by Mike Nelson
(Sea Hunt, anyone?) </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">which studied business English. Not one of
my favorite subjects, but </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">chapter 4 of the thesis surveys a number of
concepts that may be of </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">interest to this list, including semantic prosody,
collocation, </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">colligation (another new term to me), and
multi-word items.</font></tt><br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">The URL is <a
href="http://www.kielikanava.com/thesis.html.">http://www.kielikanava.com/thesis.html.</a></font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">-- </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New"> Mike Maxwell</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New"> Linguistic Data Consortium</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">
maxwell@ldc.upenn.edu</font></tt><br>
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