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Recognising Linguistic Structures - Example 4
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puna selveui = The child is coming from the hut.
puna tipveu = The cat is going to the hut.
lom fanveui = The farmer is coming from the field.
borro selveu = The child is walking to the meadow.
"The child is walking to the field" is expressed in the foreign language by:
Degree of difficulty: high
Solution
In this exercise one must first recognise that in the foreign language it is only the end
syllable of the second word which stands for "come" or "go" respectively. On closer inspection
of the expressions, it becomes clear that only the letters "veu" can have the meaning of
"going somewhere". By contrast, the verb form with an attached "i" describes
"coming from somewhere" . A comparison between the first and fourth expressions
shows that the extension of "veu" to "selveu" and from "veui" to "selveui" has the
meaning of "the child is going to" and "the child is coming from" respectively.
From the second and fourth expressions one can now work out that "tip" must mean
"cat" and "fan" must mean "farmer". By comparing the first and second expressions,
one finds that the word for "hut" in the foreign language is "puna". From expressions three
and four it can then be seen that "lom" means "field" and "borro" is the word for "meadow".
"The child is walking to the field" can hence only be "lom selveu" in the foreign language.
This means (B) is the correct solution in this exercise.
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