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Dear Wolfgang,<br>
<br>
Roper<font face="Courier New, Courier">, E.M. (1928. <i>"Tu
Bedawi". An Elementary Handbook for the Use of Sudan Government
Officials</i>. London) </font>gives, in Beja (Northern Cushitic) for the
verbal derived form he calls "reciprocal and social" of the
so-called "weak" verbs the following comment "The
reciprocal form may mean to help or accompany another in doeing".
Unfortunatly the sole example he provides belongs to the
"accompany" semantic field (<i>baraa Daabenhob henén
<u>Daabsamne</u> </i>- sorry the diaritics are missing) "when they
run we will-run-with-(them).) <br>
But for "strong" verbs (which have a different morphology),
under the derived formed simply labelled as "reciprocal" he
provides the following comment (p. 73) "In the singular it means -
to assist another in doing. In the plural it means - to do to each
other." His examples are: <i>aneb amogaada </i>"help me
throw" (from <i>gid</i> throw), baro amodaarheb "help me to
kill him" (lit. he.accusative help to kill-me; from <i>gid
</i>"kill").<br>
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Two French colleagues of mine are working on the subject at the moment,
they use the label "sociative causative", and you can contact
them (Françoise Rose : rose@vjf.cnrs.fr, and Antoine Guillaume
<font face="Courier New, Courier" color="#0000FF"><u>aguillau@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr</u></font>).
They'll present a paper on this topic during the next ALT conference in
Paris.<br>
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Best wishes<br>
<br>
Martine Vanhove<br>
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A 15:18 22/08/2007 +0200, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schulze a écrit :<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Dear Colleagues,<br>
<font color="#000099">just a little question: Does anybody has a term for
what can be called "helps-to-X"-constructions, as in
"Genetic variation *helps to* understand predisposition to
schizophrenia"? (horribile dictu: Adjuvative?) And: is there any
evidence that this function has become grammaticalized in terms of verbal
morphology?<br>
Many thanks in advance and best wishes,<br>
Wolfgang<br>
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