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Portuguese to English translations [PRO] Science - Linguistics / Verbs - gloss | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Muriel Vasconcellos United States Local time: 19:51 | ||||||
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5 | [expressed] 'position' in terms of |
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[expressed] 'position' in terms of Explanation: "Positional meaning," the more obvious translation, could be ambiguous. It is usually means the significance of an element derived from its position with respect to others. In other words, the fact that X occupies a particular slot gives it a certain meaning. Here "posicional" refers the positional attitude of a given object -- e.g., vertical. horizontal, above, below, at an angle, etc. My interpretation of the sentence: "Thus, the position-related content of the verbs X and Y is relative, in that it expresses 'position' in terms of the location/attitude/height in which the referent is found rather than the specific position of the referent as such. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 3 hrs (2006-11-30 00:06:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Maybe it's better to repeat the word "relevant": "Thus, the position-related content of the verbs X and Y is relative, in that it expresses 'position' in terms of the RELATIVE location/attitude/height in which the referent is found rather than the specific position of the referent as such. |
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