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<div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Not Cheyenne, but for what it is worth you might want to know that in Jamaican Creole to express extreme cases of illnesses and other thing affecting the human body you can personify the illness/problem:<br><br>Di fluu lik/nak mi dong (DET flu lick/knock me down)<br><br>Di fiiva lik mi dong (DET fever lick me down)<br><br>Hongri a kil mi. (hunger COP kill me)<br><br>Pien a bos mi shot (pain COP burst my shirt)<br><br>And if it is any consolation to those who fear personified illnesses, you can also say:<br><br>Haspital pik im op (hospital pick him up)<br><br>But this is a situation that you would rather avoid<br><br>Joseph<br><div> </div>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>CURRENT MAILING ADDRESS<br><br>Joseph T. Farquharson, BA Hon. (UWI), M.Phil. (Cantab.) <br>Department of
Linguistics <br>Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology<br>Deutscher Platz 6, <br>D-04103, Leipzig<br>Germany<br><br>tel ++49- (0) 341-3550-326<br>fax ++49- (0) 341-3550-333<br>e-mail: farquharson@eva.mpg.de<br><span>URL: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/farquharson/index.htm">http://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/staff/farquharson/index.htm</a></span><br> <br>AFFILIATION<br><br>Ph.D. candidate<br>Department of Language, Linguistics & Philosophy<br>University of the West Indies<br>Mona campus, Kingston 7<br>Jamaica<br><br>tel 1-876-970-2950<br>fax 1-876-970-2949<br>e-mail: joseph.farquharson@uwimona.edu.jm<div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin: 5px 0px 5px 5px; padding-left: 5px; font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From:
"rtroike@email.arizona.edu" <rtroike@email.arizona.edu><br>To: lexicographylist <lexicographylist@yahoogroups.com><br>Sent: Monday, 19 March, 2007 9:00:46 PM<br>Subject: [Lexicog] Morphological glossing of Cheyenne idiom?<br><br>
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Wayne,<br>
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After the storm of discussion regarding social attitudes toward women<br>
unleashed in the aftermath of your original inquiry, I'm still interested<br>
to know the morphological analysis of the Cheyenne expression for catching<br>
a bad cold. What signals that Cold is being personified? (In Navajo I know<br>
that this would not normally be possible, because of the animacy hierarchy,<br>
but Navajo speakers do play with the grammatical constraints. )<br>
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Thanks,<br>
<br>
Rudy<br>
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Rudy Troike<br>
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I enjoy learning new idioms in any language. Yesterday I heard a new<br>
Cheyenne idiom:<br>
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Náma'xene'enéseha He'haévêháne. 'I came down with a bad cold.'<br>
[lit. Cold<br>
(personified) beat me up bad.]<br>
<br>
Wayne<br>
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Wayne Leman<br>
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