Difference between revisions of "Japhug and English/Lexical selection"
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| − | # | + | # There are three locative postpositions in Japhug, zɯ, tɕu and ri. All three can be used to express location ("at", "on", "in"), motion into ("into"), motion towards ("to"), or motion away from a place ("from"), irrespective of semantic details like relative location (on top, below, inside, etc.). Thus all three might be ambiguously translated to any of a number of English prepositions. |
[[Category:Sp23_LexicalSelection]][[Category:Japhug]][[Category:English]] | [[Category:Sp23_LexicalSelection]][[Category:Japhug]][[Category:English]] | ||
Revision as of 14:38, 6 April 2023
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at least two cases of a one-to-many mapping (2 sentences minimum for each word):
- There are three locative postpositions in Japhug, zɯ, tɕu and ri. All three can be used to express location ("at", "on", "in"), motion into ("into"), motion towards ("to"), or motion away from a place ("from"), irrespective of semantic details like relative location (on top, below, inside, etc.). Thus all three might be ambiguously translated to any of a number of English prepositions.
