Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 07:44:55 -0800

From: Sylvia Swift madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]VIOLET.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Re: carried my cousin to the store



my middle tennessee relatives (the older generations, anyway) use "carry"

to mean to conduct or lead a person by vehicle (salikoko's terser "drive

a person") and "tote" to mean to transport by hand. thus, we carried her

to clarksville to see the doctor, he toted those books to school for me.

this distinction helped me when i first encountered russian verbs of

motion, which involve similar logical hierarchies.



carry me back to old virginie . . . .



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet.berkeley.edu