Re: Inchoactive in Jpn? (was: "Anticipatory" Tense)
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, March 11, 2002, 1:55 |
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Weiben Wang scripsit:
> chi1fan4, read most literally as "to eat rice,"
BTW, is it true that fan4 can mean "the locally staple starch",
e.g. noodles in the North, rice in the South?
I think in general that verb-verb compounds are pretty transparent,
whereas v-o ones are pretty opaque.
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