7.568, Qs: Modals, Quantifiers, Numerals, Verbs, Emphasis

Wed Apr 17 13:11:57 UTC 1996

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-568. Wed Apr 17 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  162

Subject: 7.568, Qs: Modals, Quantifiers, Numerals, Verbs, Emphasis

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1)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:45:36 BST
From:  mccay at jet.es ("Alan R. King")
Subject:  Q: Cross-linguistic modal survey

2)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:19:02 PDT
From:  bingfu at chaph.usc.edu (Lu Bingfu)
Subject:  difference between many and numerous

3)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:34:34 PDT
From:  bingfu at chaph.usc.edu (Lu Bingfu)
Subject:  adjectives that preceding numerals

4)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:47:27 CDT
From:  mhorlick at indiana.edu (michael)
Subject:  russian verbs

5)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:23:35 +0200
From:  eloufjdb at cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE ("Dr. Elke Hentschel")
Subject:  query: "terrible" emphasis

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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 16:45:36 BST
From:  mccay at jet.es ("Alan R. King")
Subject:  Q: Cross-linguistic modal survey

As part of a study on the typology of modality expressions in the world's
languages, I request translations into as many languages as possible
(especially non-European ones!) of the following three sentences:

1)  I can go to Tokyo.
2)  I have to go to Tokyo.
3)  I want to go to Tokyo.

Please literal-gloss the sentences; any further grammatical explanations or
comments will also be most welcome.  "Tokyo" may be replaced by any other
place if that is more convenient.  If there is a choice of possible
translations, you may give more than one, commenting if possible on
differences between them.

I may want to come back to those who reply with a longer list of more
detailed questions on the subject, so you may wish to indicate in your reply
whether or not you would object to this.

(Note:  I placed another query about modals on the list a few weeks ago, but
the number of replies I received was very disappointing.  I am nonetheless
grateful to all those who did respond on that occasion.  I am led to
conclude that perhaps my previous question was too obscurely worded or too
complicated, hence this new attempt.  If and when I receive a substantial
response this time, I will post a combined summary.  Note that there is no
need to look at the earlier question when answering now.)

Many thanks!

Alan R. King          |  EMAIL: mccay at jet.es
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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:19:02 PDT
From:  bingfu at chaph.usc.edu (Lu Bingfu)
Subject:  difference between many and numerous

I am doing some research on adjective ordering and I found interesting
the difference and similarity between 'many' and 'numerous', both semantically
and syntactically.  Any discussion and source on this topic?
It seems to me that 'many' resembles to Chinese 'xuduo'
but 'numerous' to Chinese 'xuduo de' (de is an modification mark), but
there are something more beyond this.
					Bingfu Lu
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3)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 09:34:34 PDT
From:  bingfu at chaph.usc.edu (Lu Bingfu)
Subject:  adjectives that preceding numerals

I am considering the word order in NPs and the following issue interested
me.
In Chinese most modifiers can appear before numerals while in Enlish
only a small portion of adjectives can precede numerals such as
"right two lanes, next three days, previous three years, successive
two weeks...". How many adjectives are there in English?  Any
discussion on this position between determiners and nemerals?
					Bingfu Lu
					East Asian Languages & Cultures
					Univ. of Southern California
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4)
Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 13:47:27 CDT
From:  mhorlick at indiana.edu (michael)
Subject:  russian verbs

dear linguists :
	 russian divides verbs into perfectives and
imperfectives.  for the most part, changing a verb from imperfective to
perfective involves adding a verbal prefix, removing an infix (an
interative infix) and adding a prefix, or in some cases using different a
form altogether.  for example,
	the verb "to read" is
		chitat      when imperfective
		prochitat   when perfective
	my question is this : why then, when you consider the verb "to go
shopping for" or "to buy", does the process appear to be reversed ?
		pokupat     when imperfective
		kupit       when perfective

thanks
michael

=============michael horlick :mhorlick at ophelia.ucs.indiana.edu===============
==================http://ezinfo.ucs.indiana.edu/~mhorlick====================

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Date:  Tue, 16 Apr 1996 22:23:35 +0200
From:  eloufjdb at cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE ("Dr. Elke Hentschel")
Subject:  query: "terrible" emphasis

While considering expressions like "terribly nice" or "awfully
kind", I became interested in the question of the universality of this
kind of emphasis. I know it occurs in German and in Serbocroatian as well -
but what about other languages? Any example is welcome, and of course I'll
post a summary.

Elke Hentschel
jasam at zedat.fu-berlin.de
eloufjdb at sp.zrz.tu-berlin.de
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