talmyan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
Example Sentences
- "The typology of the wAn languages established on the basis of the results given in table 1 clearly shows that the languages each have a characteristic tendency in one direction or the other, thus necessarily tolerating exceptional strategies when one tries to work within a strictly two-way Talmyan typology."
- "This difference between Danish and English supports the argument that there is a Talmyan window of attention effect in the compound: ‘skudsår’ has a window to the act and the result, gapping the instrument and the agent, whereas ‘gun wound’ has a window to the instrument and gaps the act and the agent."
- "Many languages that allow encoding possibilities ‘against’ their Talmyan type may in practice disprefer them as they are more complex than other available options."
Etymology
From Talmy + -an.
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: w:Talmy