Comments on: How Many Meanings of “UP”? http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=928 A Blog about Words and Language(s) from alphaDictionary.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.6 By: Les Brown http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-385397 Les Brown Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:13:59 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=928#comment-385397 I've always been amused (bemused?) by the fact that you have to cut a tree down before you cut it up... I’ve always been amused (bemused?) by the fact that you have to cut a tree down before you cut it up…

]]> By: b johnson http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=928&cpage=1#comment-317854 b johnson Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:37:02 +0000 http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog/?p=928#comment-317854 I'd like to put up my two bits here. In the first ling course I took, the professor put the following sentences up on the blackboard: He ate up the cake and He ate the cake up The professor then observed both sentences mean the same thing. But then he put up He ate up the street and He ate the street up and asked "What up? Why don't these sentences mean the same thing?" And I put the same question up for consideration, Dr Beard. Which came first the syntax or the semantics? I’d like to put up my two bits here. In the first ling course I took, the professor put the following sentences up on the blackboard:

He ate up the cake
and
He ate the cake up
The professor then observed both sentences mean the same thing. But then he put up
He ate up the street
and
He ate the street up
and asked “What up? Why don’t these sentences mean the same thing?”
And I put the same question up for consideration, Dr Beard.
Which came first the syntax or the semantics?

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