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[edit] Possession (linguistics)
[edit] Context
- Possessive (a disambig)
- Possession (another disambig)
- Possessive case (has been cleared out in favour of the next one)
- Possession (linguistics) (main article)
- Possessive pronoun
- Possessive suffix
- Inalienable possession
- Alienable possession (how come this one doesn't exist?)
- Genitive case (oh no...)
- Genitive (redirect to the above)
[edit] Adjectives
Adjectives are either simple or derived. They follow the word that they modify.
Simple adjectives:
- gel- "red"
- douŋ- "blind"
- par- "old" (cf. Nobiin fáar)
- dess- "green" (cf. Nobiin déssí)
- ŋoud(ou)- "white" (cf Nobiin nùlù)
- akoss- "bad" (cf Nobiin ùus)
Derived adjectives:
Sources:
- Browne 2002:28-30, 39 (3.6.6b)
39: If the substantive-adjective complex is plural, then the plural marker -gou is regularly added only to the adjective (e.g. papas-i ŋissi-gou-na 'of the holy fathers')
en 3.6.6.b
- Werner 1987:103vv
[edit] The cat is on the mat
The cat is on the mat is an example sentence that is widely used in academic books and articles in the fields of logic and semantics.
In introductory textbooks, the sentence is frequently used to explain the traditional notion of truth. Usually, one finds a statement along the lines of
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- A true belief is one that corresponds to the way the world is. Thus, The cat is on the mat is true if and only if the cat really is on the mat.
It seems to have come all the way from Tarski (1935, 1941)!
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Lakoff, George (1987) Women, fire, and dangerous things. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
- Smith, Ross (1996) ‘In defence of the difficulty of translation’. In The Linguist, 35, 2, 64-65.
