[Lexicog] Morphological glossing of Cheyenne idiom?

Mon Mar 19 21:10:30 UTC 2007

Not Cheyenne, but for what it is worth you might want to know that in Jamaican Creole to express extreme cases of  illnesses and other thing affecting the human body you can personify the illness/problem:

Di fluu lik/nak mi dong (DET flu lick/knock me down)

Di fiiva lik mi dong (DET fever lick me down)

Hongri a kil mi. (hunger COP kill me)

Pien a bos mi shot (pain COP burst my shirt)

And if it is any consolation to those who fear personified illnesses, you can also say:

Haspital pik im op (hospital pick him up)

But this is a situation that you would rather avoid

Joseph

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From: "rtroike at email.arizona.edu" <rtroike at email.arizona.edu>
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Sent: Monday, 19 March, 2007 9:00:46 PM
Subject: [Lexicog]  Morphological glossing of Cheyenne idiom?

Wayne,

After the storm of discussion regarding social attitudes toward women

unleashed in the aftermath of your original inquiry, I'm still interested

to know the morphological analysis of the Cheyenne expression for catching

a bad cold. What signals that Cold is being personified? (In Navajo I know

that this would not normally be possible, because of the animacy hierarchy,

but Navajo speakers do play with the grammatical constraints. )

Thanks,

Rudy

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   Rudy Troike

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I enjoy learning new idioms in any language. Yesterday I heard a new

Cheyenne idiom:

[lit. Cold

(personified) beat me up bad.]

Wayne

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Wayne Leman

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