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隐喻
一个领域的词汇被借用到另一领域，例如以火表示点亮电灯。
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Pattern
Which verb makes a machine start working?
A lamp, an air conditioner, a tap, recorded music, an alarm clock, a vacuum cleaner and a washing machine each need a verb. Some languages reach for fire, some for opening or rotation, some for the plain act of putting a thing down. The choice also shifts from one thing to the next within a single language: Japanese attaches a light and hangs music, where Korean kindles the light and rotates the washing machine.
设备操作共词化隐喻转喻
Switching a Device On →
Pathway
How does “see” come to mean “try”?
Verbs of seeing repeatedly become markers of attempting. Japanese 食べてみる “eat and see”, Korean 먹어 보다, Mandarin 試試看, and the Turkic converb + kör- constructions all say “do it and see” for “try doing it”; Voinov (2013) traces the co-lexification across Eurasia, New Guinea, India, and West Africa.
感知情态共词化多动词结构 +5
From seeing to trying →