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<div style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">=========================================================================<br>L O W L A N D S - L - 25 June 2008 - Volume 03<br style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);">
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe"><span class="EP8xU" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Ben J. Bloomgren</span> <span class="lDACoc"><<a href="mailto:ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com">ben.j.bloomgren@gmail.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="HcCDpe">[LLL] Morphology? Lexicology? Semantics?<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" id="1enx" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Hei
alle sammen (to borrow from another list I'm on [Sorry
Reinhard])</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Being
that I am a linguistics-minded person, I've always wondered about the semantic
considerations and origins of the following scenarios:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Two
people are walking down a street. One sees that a house finch has been injured.
This person says:</font></span></div>
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<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">"Poor
little bird(ie)!"</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">The
other says:</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">"that's quite a blow for such a small bird."</font></span></div>
<div><span></span> </div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Being
that, at least in Norwegian, I've seen evidence of both adjectives being present
in Germanic languages, what's the origin of the terms small and little? Where
did we get the semantic differences between the so-called poor, defenseless
little ones and the simple size of the small ones?</font></span></div>
<div><span><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Ben</font></span></div></div>
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