Latin and Mandarin Chinese
From LING073
Resources for machine translation between Latin and Mandarin Chinese
Lexical Selection
One case of one-to-many mapping between Chinese and Latin has to do with the preposition 在. This is a general locative preposition in Chinese, and it can be used to mean anything from 'in' to 'above' to 'outside' to 'to in front of' to 'west of.' Usually, the object of 在 is either a place word (such as 'China' or 'the library') or a word that means 'in', 'above', etc. which is then modified by a noun, resulting in a phrase sort of equivalent to "在 the inside of the box" or "在 the top of the table." In contrast, Latin has many different prepositions which specify different locational relationships to the object of the preposition, much like English.
