[Lingtyp] Lexical semantics of 'know/believe/think'-type verbs

[TALLMAN Adam]

Dear Aaron,

I wonder if you've seen this paper by Junker (2003) on east cree

http://www.marieodilejunker.ca/pdf/junkerCogLingMOJ.pdf

Perhaps this is what you are looking for...

Adam





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Objet : Re: [Lingtyp] Lexical semantics of 'know/believe/think'-type verbs

Dear Aaron

Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard have thought a lot about the semantics of thoughts, feelings and emotions over many years so there may be something relevant in their writings, mostly in the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework.

Best wishes,
Peter





On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 at 17:05, Broadwell,George Aaron <broadwell at ufl.edu<mailto:broadwell at ufl.edu>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,


I'm trying to understand the semantics of a handful of verbs in Choctaw that seem to be used rather differently than their closest English translations:


  *   ahnih seems to equate to 'want, notice, find out, think, pay attention to'
  *   yimmih seems to equate to 'believe', but only with nominal objects ('believed Mary' or 'believed in Jesus') but not with clausal objects
  *   ikha̱nah seems to equate to ’know (probably as the result of inquiry’) and often to ’believe’ with a clausal object.
  *   akostininchih is something like ’be certain of’

So far as I can tell, none of these "attitude verbs" seem to match very closely to their English equivalents. (At least, given an English sentence with an attitude verb, I am only partially successful in predicting which verb a Choctaw speaker will use!)

I would appreciate links to discussion of other languages with similar systems or an overall typology of different ways of dividing up this semantic domain.

Thanks,
Aaron Broadwell


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