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Re: terminology...
- To: Mari Broman Olsen <molsen@umiacs.umd.edu>, b-greek@virginia.edu
- Subject: Re: terminology...
- From: Micheal Palmer <mwpalmer@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 21:16:39 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: Jonathan Robie <jwrobie@mindspring.com>
- In-Reply-To: <199705081314.JAA16686@kairos.umiacs.umd.edu>
At 9:14 AM -0400 5/8/97, Mari Broman Olsen wrote regarding the term
'Aktionsart' (with my editing between []:
>I reject the term precisely because of the bewildering mixture [OF USES IN
>THE TRADITIONAL GRAMMARS]: if I
>were to use it, I would call to mind Robertson, etc. Another good
>reason to reject it is etymology: I am not concerned with kind of
>action, but with how an action or state is represented in the lexical
>and grammatical inventory of a language.
Thank you, Mari, for this clarification. I'm sorry I didn't remember (I
*have* read your thesis and learned a great deal from it!).
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Micheal W. Palmer
Religion & Philosophy
Meredith College
mwpalmer@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~mwpalmer/
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