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

They are both written in the same way in English, therefore it is not inferrable.
But in English it is not inferable if "he heard the girl singing in the garden" referrs the singing to the girl or to him, either. Nonetheless, in Latejami the distinction is made. 
Therefore what I would like to distinguish could be treated, too.

Stefo


MorphemeAddict@hidden.email schrieb:
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