16.2961, Qs: Generic 'Man' Constructions in Slavonic; Used (To)

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Subject: 16.2961, Qs: Generic 'Man' Constructions in Slavonic; Used (To)

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1)
Date: 13-Oct-2005
From: Andrea Sanso < sanso at humnet.unipi.it >
Subject: Generic 'Man' Constructions in Slavonic 

2)
Date: 11-Oct-2005
From: Manuel Jobert < manuel.jobert at wanadoo.fr >
Subject: Used (To) 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:29:13
From: Andrea Sanso < sanso at humnet.unipi.it >
Subject: Generic 'Man' Constructions in Slavonic 
 

Dear list members,

I'm conducting a study on impersonal "man" constructions, i.e. constructions in
which nouns originally meaning "man" or "people" have become generic human
subjects, such as "on" in French and "man" and related items in many Germanic
languages. My question is very specific. I came across a quotation of a paper by
Andre' Mazon in Melanges Mikola (Helsinki 1931), which unfortunately I didn't
find in any library within reach. The title of the paper, however, leaves no
doubts about its content: it is "L'emploi indefini du nom de l'homme en slave". 

Now, since to the best of my knowledge I didn't find any "presence" of
man-constructions in any grammar of any Slavonic language, I was wondering
whether such constructions really exist in some Slavonic language. It could be
the case that they have escaped the attention of linguists because they are
typical of the spoken register, or whatever. Perhaps they have simply escaped my
attention! I will appeciate any useful suggestions both by experts of Slavonic
languages and by native speakers.
        
Please reply to me directly. Of course, I will post a summary if significant
results emerge.

Thanks in advance,

Andrea Sanso'
Dipartimento di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata
Universita' di Pavia, Italy 

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics

Language Family(ies): Slavic Subgroup



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:29:16
From: Manuel Jobert < manuel.jobert at wanadoo.fr >
Subject: Used (To) 

	

Dear linguists,

I'm trying to get info on the dialectal use of "used to" without "to".  It
seems to be widespread in the North of England and in Ireland. Peter 
trudgill mentioned an article on the subject in the Janua Linguarum  series
in the 60s but I haven't been able to obtain more information on the
subject. There are a few instances of it in the BNC.
        
Any help (frequency, origin, articles etc.) would be appreciated.

Manuel Jobert
English Department
Université Jean Moulin - Lyon 3 (France) 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)




 



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