Re: Negation raising (was: introduction)
| From: | Christian Thalmann <cinga@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, July 31, 2002, 13:01 |
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--- In conlang@y..., John Cowan <jcowan@R...> wrote:
> You are probably right. Although "methinks" got frozen a long time ago,
> Chaucer uses impersonal "think" freely with all persons and tenses: e.g.
> _Troilus and Criseyde_ line 502:
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> For whiche him thoughte he felte his herte blede.
Ah, interesting.
German has two separate words for these two concepts: "denken" for the
active use and "dünken" for the impersonal. "Mich dünkt, dass..."
means about the same as "Ich denke, dass...". I imagine these could
have been dialectal forms of the same basic word at a certain
evolutionary stage.
-- Christian Thalmann
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