Websters Mambwe - English Thesaurus Dictionary

Cover Art for 9780497836009, Websters Mambwe - English Thesaurus Dictionary by Philip M. Parker
ISBN: 9780497836009
Publisher: ICON Group International, Inc.
Published: 3 January, 2008
Format: eBook
Language: English

While creating an English thesaurus for Mambwe speakers seems simple enough, it can be tricky. What's the problem? Translations do not always follow strict transitivity. Normally, if a=b and b=c, then c=a. This is not necessarily true in linguistics when b is an English word that has more than one part of speech. For example, 'test' is a verb, noun and adjective. What is the correct English synonym for 'a' (in Mambwe) when 'b' (in English) has synonyms ('c') having many parts of speech? Furtherm

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