Honorary Doctor of Letters for Ernie Grant

[Alexandra Aikhenvald]

Dear Typologists,

 

Ernie Grant, a notable elder of the Jirrbal tribe, will be honoured by an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from James Cook University on 17 April 2010.
 
Attached is the statement of his achievements leading to this award.
 
It is worth noting that Ernie is the son of Chloe Grant, Bob Dixon's first and great teacher of Dyirbal.. He is one of the last remaining speakers of the language.

 


Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald, PhD, DLitt, FAHA
Professor and Research Leader (Peoples and Societies of the Tropics)
The Cairns Institute 
James Cook University
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http://www.aikhenvaldlinguistics.com/












 


Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:15:41 +1100
From: francois at VJF.CNRS.FR
Subject: Re: [FUNKNET] 'Hear' as 'understand'
To: LINGTYP at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG

dear all,

in Lakon  (Oceanic, spoken in Gaua I, Banks Is, Vanuatu), /roŋ/ is polysemous between ‘hear’, ‘feel’, ‘understand’, and ‘know’:

Na   ga       roŋ     avōh   sa    na   ga        vaha.
1sg     NonPast  [hear+]   Neg         Cplzr   1sg    NonPast   do.what
lit. I don't hear/understand/know what I shall do
‘I can't figure out what I'm supposed to do.’
best,
Alex.




Martine VANHOVE wrote: 
Dear Nino, 

You'll find loads of data and analysis in: 

Evans, Nicholas and Wilkins, David. 2000. In the mind’s ear: The semantic extensions of 
perception verbs in Australian languages. /Language /76/3, 546-592. 

and in my own paper 

Vanhove, Martine. 2008. Semantic associations between sensory modalities, prehension and mental perceptions: A cross-linguistic perspective. From Polysemy to Semantic Change: Towards a Typology of Lexical Semantic Associations. M. Vanhove. Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins: 341-370. 

Best 

Martine 



Paul Hopper a écrit : 

French entendre would be an obvious example. 

Paul 



On Mon, February 1, 2010 14:37, Nino Amiridze wrote: 
  
Dear colleagues, 


I was wondering whether you could help me in finding languages that 
use the verb 'hear' for 'understand', just like English uses 'see' for the 
same purpose (I see (=I understand)). 

I would be grateful if you could give data and/or references, if there 
are investigations on the use of the 'see' vs. 'hear' verbs in figurative 
language. 

Thank you very much. 


Best regards, 
Nino Amiridze 
http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/ 



    

  

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