9.380, FYI: Korean List,Left/Right Asym,Richard Mather Lect

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Subject: 9.380, FYI: Korean List,Left/Right Asym,Richard Mather Lect

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1)
Date:  Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:10:50 -0600
From:  david at ling.uta.edu (David J. Silva)
Subject:  Korean Linguistics Mailing List

2)
Date:  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:04:26 -0800 (PST)
From:  bingfu <bingfu at scf-fs.usc.edu>
Subject:  An Anecdote of Left-Right Asymmetries

3)
Date:  Sat, 14 Mar 1998 07:35:35 -0800 (PST)
From:  David Prager Branner <yrs at netcom.com>
Subject:  Dante & the Vernaculars: Chinese & Western (Mpls)

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Date:  Tue, 10 Mar 1998 12:10:50 -0600
From:  david at ling.uta.edu (David J. Silva)
Subject:  Korean Linguistics Mailing List

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Date:  Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:04:26 -0800 (PST)
From:  bingfu <bingfu at scf-fs.usc.edu>
Subject:  An Anecdote of Left-Right Asymmetries

	Here is an anecdote about left-right asymmetries.

Recently, in the net list of Chinese linguistic/teaching discussion
chinese at kenyon.edu, there have been a discussion about the relation
between 'left' and 'sinister', and 'right' and 'correct'.  It reminds
me of something. Many years ago, I read a book by an anthropologist,
telling that in a certain language the verb infection partly depends
on whether the action is carried out by the left or right hands.  Did
anybody in this net list read the same story?

Then, how about when the speaker is not sure about which hand performs
the action? He has to use some marked, cumbersome substitute forms,
like 'I was hit (by a unknown hand)' or 'I suffered/received a
hit'. It is not totally surprising, since in many languages the verb
inflection relates to the gender, or social status of the actor.

Speakers of some languages like Chinese may feel lucky in this
respect, since they don't need to care about the sex, status etc. of
the actor (which are irrelevant to the communicational purpose in most
of cases) whenever they use a finite verb.
						Bingfu Lu
						USC


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Date:  Sat, 14 Mar 1998 07:35:35 -0800 (PST)
From:  David Prager Branner <yrs at netcom.com>
Subject:  Dante & the Vernaculars: Chinese & Western (Mpls)

East Asian Languages, Literatures & Linguistics
of the Institute of Linguistics and Asian
and Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota

presents

	***  The Fourth Richard B. Mather Lecture  ***

Prof. Glen Dudbridge (Oxford University) speaking on

Dante & the Vernaculars:
	Chinese & Western

Thursday, 16 April, 1998
	3:30-5:00 pm
	Coffman Union (Theatre)
	University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (East Bank)

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact our Department secretary at
	(612)-624-3331

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