Re: [tied] Re: o-grade thoughts

At 12:16:28 PM on Monday, September 4, 2006, tgpedersen wrote:

>>> I don't get it. What is this claim about languages you
>>> think I made?

>> Specifically, in the case of English, this claim from
>> message 45893:

>> > Reduplication may also express intensity, repetition and
>> > the like ("It rained and rained as he rode and rode").

>> And originally that meant: it rained, then it rained; he
>> rode, then he rode. Plurality of rains spells, plurality
>> of riding stages.

> OK, now I see what you are objecting to: it's not the idea
> that iterative verbs refer to several consecutive
> occasions, but the claim that iterative is the origin of
> intensive and durative. Yes?

Precisely.

Brian