Re: MeloChalaka
| From: | Matthew Pearson <matthew.pearson@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, September 24, 2001, 21:19 |
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--- You wrote:
> The second thing I am proud of is the voices. There are four,
> Afferent, Efferent, Infferent and Exfferent. Efferent is like an
> Active voice. Afferent is like a Passive voice. Infferent means all
> the action is occuring WITHIN the person, Reflexive, sort of. "My
> heart beats" would be infferent, but "I beat myself" would be afferent.
> Exfferent means all the action is occuring outside the speaker, the
> speaker is merely the observer. So, you can keep the person the same,
> but change the voice, or keep the voice the same and change the person.
Awesome! That is very creative! Could you give more details on what
Efferent and Afferent are?
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This all sounds quite interesting. So how do you handle sensory predicates like
"see", "hear", "feel"? I assume that emotional and mental states--"think",
"remember", "be angry", "feel uncomfortable"--would all be expressed in the
Infferent, yes?
Matt.
Matt Pearson
Department of Linguistics
Reed College
3203 SE Woodstock Blvd
Portland, OR 97202 USA
ph: 503-771-1112 (x 7618)
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