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Article #3015lexicalization on out-in-out paths
From: David Mark
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 00:00
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Many languages have words to express a path that starts outside a region, goes into it, and then goes outside again. English can express this with prepositions X as in "the deer went X the park" where X can be through, or across, or through path verbs Y as in "the deer Y the park" for Y = crossed, traversed, bisected, etc. But, I do not know of any language that has a simple preposition (as in "the deer went X the park" or a simple path verb as in "the deer Y the park" that expresses a path that starts INSIDE a region, goes OUT, and then comes back inside. First, does anyone know of an exception to my second point, i.e., a simple term in some language for an Inside-Outside-Inside path? Second, does anyone know of an exception to my first point, i.e., a language that LACKS one or more simple terms for an Outside-Inside-Outside path? Third, does anyone know of or have a theory or principle to account for this difference if indeed the generalization stands up? David Mark dmark@geog.buffalo.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10870e,47ff0c03a8e9c887,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,47ff0c03a8e9c887,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: dmark@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu (David Mark) Subject: lexicalization on out-in-out paths Date: 1998/09/05 Message-ID: <6ssf1r$g4a$1@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu> X-Deja-AN: 388269558 Organization: UB NNTP-Posting-User: dmark Newsgroups: sci.lang,bit.listserv.geograph