Talk:Preverb
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Preverb v. coverb
editAs far as I know, "preverb" is the usual term used in the case of Chinese. Chinese preverbs are lexically verbs but syntactically prepositions. That is to say, the Chinese equivalent of a preposition is a verb preceeding a noun, and the term for this is "preverb". — Hippietrail 11:40, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Interesting to know. Can you tell me a bit more about this so I can put it into the article? (Or you could add it yourself if you like.) thefamouseccles 22:32, 19 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- Unfortunately I don't know much more. I heard the terms "preverb" and "coverb" once and read up on them a bit once. I very quickly checked what I knew with Google. The second term is much harder to find info on by the way! — Hippietrail 04:01, 20 Aug 2004 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure coverb and preverb refer to the same thing in Chinese. There's no article on coverb currently, but I can write one up when I get the chance. -- Umofomia 22:51, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- The introduction of the coverb article suggests that "preverb" and "coverb" are often used synonymously, and for more than one concept. Hungarian also has separable verb prefixes that are often called "preverbs", e.g. on Duolingo. Hungarian isn't covered by this article, it only refers to (Caucasian, Amerind and) "Indo-European languages", but most IE languages don't have them, whereas in Hungarian they're a salient feature. Maybe change to "European languages", even though that isn't a linguistic term?--2A02:8071:81C1:F900:881A:146A:FA7E:B8D3 (talk) 08:16, 14 March 2022 (UTC)
Georgian
editI'm finding the new Georgian information here very very interesting but I would really love to see the native script along with the transliterations. — Hippietrail 13:12, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Algonkian
editI added the section on Algonkian, but I am neither a native speaker nor good with references. I think what I wrote checks against the grammars and dictionaries I've seen, but none is in front of me now.--Algonkian wanna learn (talk) 22:56, 14 August 2009 (UTC)