Thursday, March 14, 2019

Hawaiian through the Bible - 2

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Genesis 1:1  I kinohi hana ke Akua i ka lani a me ka honua.  I : in - in the previous post we meet “i” as a verb marker; here is is a ver...
Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Hawaiian though the Bible - 1

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The Bible in Hawaiian, or Ka Baibala ( http://baibala.org/ ), is a translation of the Bible into the Hawaiian language. It was originally tr...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Ditransitive construction vs. prepositional dative

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Joshua Viau, in a paper Give = CAUSE + HAVE / GO: Evidence for Early Semantic Decomposition of Dative Verbs in English Child Corpora ( pdf ...
Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Theme incorporating Verb in Spanish, but not English

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In El Mundo , there was a story on 14 Jan 2011 that began La Fundación BBVA ha premiado al economista británico Nicholas Stern por un infor...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Two levels of Abstraction

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There seems to be two different levels of abstraction in the use of a word. Take, for instance, words related to marriage. There are at the ...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

I, me, and overcorrection

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The Vancouver Olympics are over now. The Anthem of the Vancouver Olympics ( lyrics here ) has the repeated lines: I believe together we’ll f...
Friday, January 15, 2010

The South and West in U.S. presidential elections

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In the last 20 years there have been 5 presidential elections. In two of these elections, those in 1992 and 1996, Ross Perot was a candidate...