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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Dear Ian,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I have a few comments.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I was wondering about<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Genitive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Alienable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Genitive<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:black">Inalienable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Is it a good idea to use ‘genitive’? Would ‘possessive’ not be better?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Also I wonder about languages like Finnish which express contrast between definiteness and indefiniteness by word order:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Auto on kadulla. ‘<u>The car</u> is in the street.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Kadulla on auto. ‘There is
<u>a car</u> in the street.’ (-ulla is inessive case.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Also think of Italian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">La macchina è rotta.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">È rotta la machina.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">both ‘The car is broken’, but are answers to different questions (Where is your car?, Why are you late?, resp.); same (SV vs. VS) in Greek. How would
you get these results?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Best, Hartmut<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Fra:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org>
<b>På vegne af </b>JOO, Ian [Student]<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 8. maj 2021 15:08<br>
<b>Til:</b> LINGTYP <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Emne:</b> [Lingtyp] A list of 50 basic sentences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<br>
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I am trying to make a list of 50 basic sentential meanings.<br>
The goal is to make parallel corpora of different languages based on this list of sentences.<br>
Each sentence on the list serves to check whether a language has a given grammatical feature, and if so, in what form the language expresses it.<br>
When creating each sentence, I tried to limit its vocabulary to basic words that are found in most languages, avoiding culture-specific words.<br>
I would appreciate it if you could have a look at the attached file and advise what I should add/remove/modify.<o:p></o:p></p>
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From Hong Kong, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ian<o:p></o:p></p>
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