[FUNKNET] 'Hear' as 'understand'

[Thurgood, Graham]

It might be interesting to compare the 'see' > 'know; understand' words to the 'hear' > 'understand'


On 2/2/10 1:21 AM, "Andrea Kiso" <andrea at LING.SU.SE> wrote:

Hi!
Chichewa (or Nyanja, Bantu) is another example. The verb (stem) -mva
means both hear and understand (also 'feel').
Kind regards,
Andrea

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Andrea Kiso
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Department of linguistics, Stockholm University
10691 Stockholm, Sweden
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> On Mon, February 1, 2010 14:37, Nino Amiridze wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues,
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>> I was wondering whether you could help me in finding languages that
>> use the verb 'hear' for 'understand', just like English uses 'see' for the
>> same purpose (I see (=I understand)).
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>> I would be grateful if you could give data and/or references, if there
>> are investigations on the use of the 'see' vs. 'hear' verbs in figurative
>> language.
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>> Thank you very much.
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>> Best regards,
>> Nino Amiridze
>> http://www.hum.uu.nl/medewerkers/n.amiridze/
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Graham Thurgood
English Department
CSU Chico
Chico, CA 95929

http://www.csuchico.edu/%7Egt18/GWT_Homepage.html
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