Thursday, January 26, 2017

Sargaĺk: Some Spatial Postpositions


A short translation of the table would be something like
onunder
beneath
over
above
offaroundonto
inbeneath
over
above
(in)
(outside)
out ofaroundinto

in

X

X

out of

X

into

This image should be fairly self-explanatory: the circle expresses insides of things, the upper half circle represents the outside of a convex surface (hill, convex structure, etc), the lower half circle express the outside of a concave surface. 'ule', with regards to a convex surface expresses 'under, beneath', etc. It's worth noting that the surface of the sea also patterns with the concave surfaces.

This is not an exhaustive description of Sargaĺk spatial postpositions, nor does it fully exhaust the spatial usages of the ones presented.

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