7.1033, Qs: Eco quote, Deontic modalities, Imperative-aorist form

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LINGUIST List:  Vol-7-1033. Tue Jul 16 1996. ISSN: 1068-4875. Lines:  94
 
Subject: 7.1033, Qs: Eco quote, Deontic modalities, Imperative-aorist form
 
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Date:  16 Jul 1996 03:04:37 EDT
From:  101233.3041 at CompuServe.COM (Roger Depledge)
Subject:  Eco quote
 
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Date:  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:17:55 +0200
From:  ross at ipv85.unipv.it (Andrea Rossetti)
Subject:  deontic modalities
 
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Date:  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:18:29 +1000
From:  linguist at tam2000.tamu.edu (The Linguist List) (by way of z.gabsi at uws.edu
.au
       (Zouhir Gabsi))
Subject:  The imperative-aorist form in Arabic
 
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Date:  16 Jul 1996 03:04:37 EDT
From:  101233.3041 at CompuServe.COM (Roger Depledge)
Subject:  Eco quote
 
 
"Communication is a moral question: Who is to make more effort, the
person sending the message or the person receiving it?"
 
Thus my garbled memory of an interview with Umberto Eco in ~The
Guardian~ (UK), some time in the 1980s. Does anyone know the original
Italian from Eco's prolific work? Or, even more gratifyingly, an
earlier formulation of the same idea?
 
Roger Depledge                                   Linguists must not,
Freelance translator                                 repeat NOT,
Toulouse                                           be prescriptive.
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Date:  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 14:17:55 +0200
From:  ross at ipv85.unipv.it (Andrea Rossetti)
Subject:  deontic modalities
 
 
 I am studying the iteration of deontic modalities in formal
languages. I am looking for works on deontic modalties in natural
languages. thanks for the answer
 
Andrea Rossetti
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  Andrea Rossetti
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Date:  Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:18:29 +1000
From:  linguist at tam2000.tamu.edu (The Linguist List) (by way of z.gabsi at uws.edu
.au
       (Zouhir Gabsi))
Subject:  The imperative-aorist form in Arabic
 
I am currently comparing Arabic and Berber verbal themes. I came across the
imperative-aorist form. Can any one explain the difference between aorist
and imperative?
 
Regards
 
Zouhir Gabsi
 
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