Websters Mambwe - English Thesaurus Dictionary
Philip M. Parker
ISBN: | 9780497836009 |
Publisher: | ICON Group International, Inc. |
Published: | 3 January, 2008 |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Websters Mambwe - English Thesaurus Dictionary
Philip M. Parker
While creating an English thesaurus for Mambwe speakers seems simple enough, it can be tricky. What's the problem? Translations do not always follow strict transitivity. Normally, if a=b and b=c, then c=a. This is not necessarily true in linguistics when b is an English word that has more than one part of speech. For example, 'test' is a verb, noun and adjective. What is the correct English synonym for 'a' (in Mambwe) when 'b' (in English) has synonyms ('c') having many parts of speech? Furtherm
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