<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236769" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236837">Interestingly, in some languages I work on, e.g. Urdu (spoken in Pakistan and northern India), the word for 'to put, keep' (rakhnaa) is a semantic causative of the verb meaning 'to remain, stay' (rahnaa). Thus it has a meaning opposite to that of the word for 'let go, abandon' (choRnaa).</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236769" dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236769" dir="ltr"><span>Elena Bashir</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236769" dir="ltr">The University of Chicago</div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236770"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236890" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236889"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236888"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236887"> <font size="2" face="Arial" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236891"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Joo Ian <ian.joo@outlook.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Meichun Liu <meichunliu0107@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, January 3, 2019 4:03 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Lingtyp] PUT=LET GO: An areal feature?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1546455192577_236892"><br><div id="yiv0004400187">
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Dear all,<br>
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I wonder if you know any language where the primary morpheme meaning 'to put' and the one meaning 'to let go (to seize holding something)' are the same.<br>
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At this point I only know four: Mandarin (fàng), Korean (noh), Mongolian (tav), and White Hmong (tso).<br>
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They are all spoken in East Asia (with White Hmong spreading out to SE Asia), so I wonder if this feature is unique to this area.<br>
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Regards,<br>
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Ian JOO (주이안)<br>
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