<div dir="ltr">Dear Aaron<div><br></div><div>Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard have thought a lot about the semantics of thoughts, feelings and emotions over many years so there may be something relevant in their writings, mostly in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework. </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 17:05, Broadwell,George Aaron <<a href="mailto:broadwell@ufl.edu">broadwell@ufl.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I'm trying to understand the semantics of a handful of verbs in Choctaw that seem to be used rather differently than their closest English translations:<br>
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<li><em>ahnih</em> seems to equate to 'want, notice, find out, think, pay attention to'</li><li><em>yimmih </em>seems to equate to 'believe', but only with nominal objects ('believed Mary' or 'believed in Jesus') but not with clausal objects</li><li><em>ikha̱nah</em> seems to equate to ’know (probably as the result of inquiry’) and often to ’believe’ with a clausal object.<br>
</li><li><em>akostininchih</em> is something like ’be certain of’<br>
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<div>So far as I can tell, none of these "attitude verbs" seem to match very closely to their English equivalents. (At least, given an English sentence with an attitude verb, I am only partially successful in predicting which verb a Choctaw speaker will use!)<br>
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<div>I would appreciate links to discussion of other languages with similar systems or an overall typology of different ways of dividing up this semantic domain.<br>
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