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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">I think, Denys, that a sentence
<i>about</i> one’s mother (which is to be honoured) would automatically require a reference-honorific marker on either the subject or the verb, if available, or a verb marked as such.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the adressee’s mother. The purely descriptive noun is haha (</span><span lang="JA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Yu Gothic",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">母</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">).
Maybe ‘Your mother is eating’ would lead to clearer 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">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>Denys T.<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> 8. maj 2021 15:25<br>
<b>Til:</b> JOO, Ian [Student] <ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> LINGTYP <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Emne:</b> Re: [Lingtyp] A list of 50 basic sentences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just a random thought: you have inferential, mirative, but what about reportative? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And I am not sure that I understand correctly, but what is honorific about 'My mother ate fish'? ‘Mother’ over ‘mom’? I don’t know what to offer instead, but I would think about changing this one.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best wishes, <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Denys <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 8. May 2021, at 16:08, JOO, Ian [Student] <<a href="mailto:ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk">ian.joo@connect.polyu.hk</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">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></span></p>
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From Hong Kong,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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