10.107, Qs: "Tide someone over", Asian books, Afroasiatics

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Subject: 10.107, Qs: "Tide someone over", Asian books, Afroasiatics

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:04:33 -0500
From:  MARC PICARD <picard at vax2.concordia.ca>
Subject:  RE: "To tide someone over"

2)
Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 1999 05:31:37 -0500
From:  Asian Rare Books <arbs at erols.com>
Subject:  Books on Hakka & Yue dialects

3)
Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:48:06 +0500
From:  David Wilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:  References on Afroasiatics

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Date:  Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:04:33 -0500
From:  MARC PICARD <picard at vax2.concordia.ca>
Subject:  RE: "To tide someone over"

In her summary of the geographical distribution, semantic range and
origin of <to tide someone over>, Erica Hofmann Kencke mentioned that
some speakers have modified this to <to tie someone over>. Her
interpretation, with which I totally agree, is that it is 'probably a
construction by which a speaker "corrects" an incomprehensible idiom
to a form that seems to make more sense'.  I've personally heard a
number of similar "corrections" over the years, e.g., <to wind one's
way home>, <on an even key>, <blind check>, <plutonic love> (I kid you
not), etc. Is there a name for this sort of thing (I don't think it
would qualify as hypercorrection, do you?), and has any sort of list
ever been compiled?

Marc Picard


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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 1999 05:31:37 -0500
From:  Asian Rare Books <arbs at erols.com>
Subject:  Books on Hakka & Yue dialects


I seek to buy
   Hashimoto: Hakka Dialect,
   A Study of the Yue Dialect
   And possibly rare older glossaries of Chinese and similar.

Stephen Feldman   arbs at erols.com


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Date:  Sun, 24 Jan 1999 16:48:06 +0500
From:  David Wilmsen <dwilmsen at aucegypt.edu>
Subject:  References on Afroasiatics

Greetings:

A colleague is looking for a simple reference on afro-asiatic
linguistics for his students to read by way of introduction/overview
of the subject.

Can anyone supply me with any?

Thanks

David Wilmsen
Director, Arabic and Translation Studies Division
American University in Cairo

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