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Re: [saweli] ditransitive verbs: he called me a friend

In a message dated 5/14/2007 10:09:56 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


The difference between the two sentences lies the "deicticity", (I don't
know how to name this a better way).
"He heard her (while she was) in their garden." is a sentence, where
every item is indicated by the speaker, he, she, they, the garden, the
hearing, the being inside somewhere.
"He heard her (believing that she was) in their garden." is a sentence
where "in their garden" is actually a reference made by "he" and is
based on the P/F-action "he heard her". The speaker may not want to
express that she was in their garden.


Is this more than the distinction between "He heard her (who was) in the garden" and "He heard her (while he was) in the garden"?
Saweli already handles these by using open adjectives modifying the object noun phrase (for the former) and case tags modifying the verb (for the latter).

If this isn't what you mean, then I don't understand how you get the second interpretation from the given sentence.

stevo