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

In a message dated 5/15/2007 7:46:42 AM Central Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:


P/F: He heard the girl singing in the garden. (And it's a fact that she
sang there.)
P/FJ: He heard the girl singing in the garden. (But it's only his own
judgement that she sang there.)


I think the second interpretation adds an evaluation of the speaker's perception or attitude toward the situation that is not inferrable from the sentence itself.

stevo