Re: Inherently Reflexive Verbs (was: mental masturbation)
| From: | Boudewijn Rempt <bsarempt@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 3, 1999, 6:43 |
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On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, FFlores wrote:
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> BTW I haven't discovered a word referring to women --
> they live a secret life, I guess, and they're too shy for
> my field researchers to get such intimate stuff out of them.
> We'll see. :)
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Perhaps you should send some lady investigators? This problem
reminds me a bit of a grammar I have of a certain very obscure
language, in which most of the vocubulary is concerned with male
sexuality, apparently because the researcher spent his fieldwork
sojourn mostly in the haystack with the village's boys... What I
haven't seen is a grammar that shows that the researcher has done
the same with some villages girls.
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt