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Article #3016Re: lexicalization on out-in-out paths
From: Greg Lee
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 00:00
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In sci.lang David Mark <dmark@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu> wrote: : 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. These examples from English are not specific to regions, since one can go across a line, or through a gate. Unless you understand region in a very general way, in which case "hop" (leaving a surface and returning) or "vacation" (leaving work and returning) might be examples of in-out-in verbs. ... -- Greg Lee <lee@Hawaii.edu>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10870e,47ff0c03a8e9c887 X-Google-Attributes: gid10870e,public X-Google-Thread: 10a20a,47ff0c03a8e9c887 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a20a,public From: Greg Lee <lee@Hawaii.edu> Subject: Re: lexicalization on out-in-out paths Date: 1998/09/06 Message-ID: <6su66n$nue@news.Hawaii.Edu> X-Deja-AN: 388409001 References: <6ssf1r$g4a$1@joxer.acsu.buffalo.edu> Organization: University of Hawaii Newsgroups: sci.lang,bit.listserv.geograph