Difference between revisions of "Latin and Mandarin Chinese/Lexical selection"
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| + | Our examples for one-to-many mappings from Latin to Chinese from last assignment were (1) the many different classifiers that can go with different nouns and (2) the sentence-ending particle 呢, often marking a rhetorical question (which, in Latin, would probably not be formally different from a genuine question). However, we later realized that these aren't exactly lexical selection problems. | ||
== zho → lat == | == zho → lat == | ||
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| + | Our examples for one-to-many mappings from Chinese to Latin were (1) the preposition 在, which can express many different locative relationships for which Latin has distinct prepositions and (2) the fact that Latin pronouns have many different forms depending on case etc., while Chinese only has one form for each pronoun. The latter is actually more of a grammatical issue than a lexical selection problem. | ||
[[Category:Sp18_LexicalSelection]] | [[Category:Sp18_LexicalSelection]] | ||
Revision as of 15:17, 5 April 2018
lat → zho
Our examples for one-to-many mappings from Latin to Chinese from last assignment were (1) the many different classifiers that can go with different nouns and (2) the sentence-ending particle 呢, often marking a rhetorical question (which, in Latin, would probably not be formally different from a genuine question). However, we later realized that these aren't exactly lexical selection problems.
zho → lat
Our examples for one-to-many mappings from Chinese to Latin were (1) the preposition 在, which can express many different locative relationships for which Latin has distinct prepositions and (2) the fact that Latin pronouns have many different forms depending on case etc., while Chinese only has one form for each pronoun. The latter is actually more of a grammatical issue than a lexical selection problem.
