Helmbrecht Paper: Terminology 'modal prefix'

Koontz John E John.Koontz at colorado.edu
Tue Jul 9 03:49:55 UTC 2002


On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Ardis R Eschenberg wrote:
> Doubt this sheds any light, but it works very consistently and avoid
> calling this phenomenon voice or mode (Mode is way overused anyway).
>
> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, R. Rankin wrote:
>
> > I always thought of this as "voice" rather than "mode".
> > To me, voice is what the more current notion of
> > "valence" is all about.

Just in case there's any doubt, I'm not actually suggesting that we start
(or resume) calling wa- the modal prefix.  I was just wondering if
anyone had encountered any precedent for this unusual usage.

JEK



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