Re: R: prepositions in Tok Pisin & Vivo (long)

Am 09/18 14:11  Jonathan Chang yscrifef:
> In a message dated 2000:09:18 5:40:38 AM, you quotes me and you writes:
>
> >>         IN => 'at' (in same location as),
> >
> >>                 'in' (located inside of)
> >
> >>         EXO=> "from", "out of" , "away from"
> >
> >>                 "outside of" , "exterior"
> >
> >>         CIRCA=> "around", "encircling" , "surrounding"
> >
> >>             "near(by)", "close to"
> >
> >>         SUR=> "on(to[p]",  "touching" top, "on surface of"
> >
> >>         TRANS=> "across"
> >
> >>                 "through"
> >
> >>         AD=> "to(wards)", "(moving) at"
> >
> >>         SOPRA=> "above", "over", "superimposed"
> >
> >>         AVANTI=> before, in front of, ahead of (spatially)
> >
> >>         RETRO=> behind, in back/rear of
> >
> >>         INTRA=> between, among, amidst, inter-
> >
> >>         SOTTO=> under, beneath
> >
I'm sorry to see the omission of the Chinese pidgin locative -said.  It
is a favourite of mine.

- andrew.
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Andrew Smith, Intheologus                       hobbit@earthlight.co.nz

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