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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Dear
Typologists,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">I hope that
the following examples from Ainu will be of use to you.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">nu 'hear
sth/sb' (vt)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">yay-nu
<REFL-hear> 'think' (vi) (a reflexive of 'hear')</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">itak-nu
<speech-hear> 'obey' (vi) (O-incorporation)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Some sources
also give the meaning 'understand' for itak-nu lit. 'listen to
speech'.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Best
wishes,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="MS UI Gothic" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Anna
Bugaeva.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=tsunoda@NINJAL.AC.JP href="mailto:tsunoda@NINJAL.AC.JP">角田 太作
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS UI Gothic"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 03, 2010
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt MS UI Gothic"><B>Subject:</B> Re: hear</DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 16px">Dear Typologists,<BR> In the Warrongo
language of Australia, the transitive verb ngawa- means ‘hear, listen to’ (a
person, speech, voice, music, etc.). It can also mean ‘understand’. But the
second use seems to be confined to language, i.e. ‘understand a
language’.<BR> In view of the above, it might be the case
that, in a given language, if the word for ‘hear, listen to’ acquires the
meaning of ‘understand’, initially its use is confined to
language.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Tasaku
Tsunoda<BR></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face="ＭＳ Ｐゴシック"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12px"><BR><BR>On 10.2.3 0:00 AM, "Marina Chumakina"
<M.Chumakina@SURREY.AC.UK> wrote:<BR><BR></SPAN></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT size=4><FONT face=Arial><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 13px">in
Archi (Nakh-Daghestanian), kor (the imperfective of kos ‘hear’) means “yes,
agree, understand, will do” – but only in the “first person” (quotes here
because Archi verbs do not agree in person), i.e. when I say to somebody
“kor” it means roughly “yes”. <BR>but “tuw kor” (he hear.IPF) means “he
hears” and nothing else <BR>Russian verb slushat’sja ‘obey’ is
(historically) a reflexive of slushat’ ‘hear, listen to’ (imperfective)
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