<div dir="ltr">A marginal note: already Ch. Bally, <i>Linguist. franç. et linguist. génér. (§ 185) </i>mentioned verbs as<i> louer </i>'to rent out, to lend' and 'to hire' or <i><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">h</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ô</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">te</span> '</i>host' and 'guest'. Kronasser 1952 spoke for such cases of an 'ungegliederte Situationsverstellung' that can even be reconstructed via comparison between strictly comparable languages: see Gk.
<span style="font-style:italic;font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">ba</span><span style="font-style:italic;font-size:11pt;line-height:107%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">ínō</span><i> </i> <font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">'I go' vs. Lat<i>. ueni</i></span></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px;font-style:italic">ō ' </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14.6667px">'I come'. Similarly, you find Germ. <i>geben </i>"to give"<i> </i>vs. OIr.<i> gaibim </i>'I take'. Such an originally undivided meaning can be found in many languages, especially with verbs originally denoting 'exchange'.</span><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Many years ago (1972) I dealt with this point in an article published in "Studi Germanici" 10, p. 43-79 (see also "Indogerm. Forsch."76/1971: 174-202).</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Cheers,</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Paolo</span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Prof. Dr. Paolo Ramat</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div>Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Socio corrispondente<br><div>'Academia Europaea'</div><div>'Societas Linguistica Europaea', Honorary Member</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">piazzetta Arduino 11 - I 27100 Pavia</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">##39 0382 27027</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">347 044 98 44</div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno gio 27 gen 2022 alle ore 09:56 Maia Ponsonnet <<a href="mailto:maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au">maia.ponsonnet@uwa.edu.au</a>> ha scritto:<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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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Hello,</span>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Somewhat tangentially, you may want to look at some of the chapters in this volume? </div>
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">I can't remember a mention of the phenomenon you describe, but some of the contributions may have clues? </div>
<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt">Cheers and kind regards, Maïa</span><br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 27 January 2022 4:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a> <<a href="mailto:lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" target="_blank">lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Lingtyp] languages lacking a verb for 'give'</font>
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He wants to know <span style="color:black">whether anyone knows of a language that lacks a "give" type verb and would express something like "I gave him the book" instead as something like "I presented the book (to him) and he took it". That is, is there a
language that can only express a give-type concept with two more analytic clauses?</span></p>
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Matthew Dryer</p>
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