Re: a question of terminology
| From: | Matt Pearson <mpearson@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, April 25, 1999, 17:56 |
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Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>Denden has the following suffixes in this category (with provisional
>glosses):
>-hau IMP imperative
>-do OPT optative
>-men AFF affective: the subject of the verb stands in an
>amatory
> relation to the object; the speaker loves the hearer or the
> hearer loves the speaker, the speaker loves either the subject
> or the object of the verb.
>-yara DSP despising: same range as <-men> but indicates
>despising.
>-ju CRT certainty: the speaker is certain that the sentence is
> true.
>-zo FLT flattering
I would call these "attitudinal suffixes". The AFF, DSP, and CRT suffixes
clearly express the speaker's attitude towards what s/he is saying, or
towards some person/thing associated with the utterance context. The IMP
and OPT could also be regarded as attitudinals in a broad sense, insofar as
they indicate the speaker's desire that a particular action or situation
come about. I'm not so clear on what the FLT suffix is used for, though...
Matt.
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