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Talmian

Talmian adjective: relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.

Adjective

Talmian (comparative more Talmian, superlative most Talmian)

  1. Relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
    • And one could add, in Talmian terms, that the star shadows are antagonistic – in so far as they as forms – are menacing (element) principles in virtue of the discontinual whirling.1996, Hans-Erik Larsen, The Aesthetics of the Elements: Imaginary Morphologies in Texts and Paintings, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, →ISBN, page 93
    • The Talmian typology of event types has provided us with an important tool for investigating lexicalization patterns and the arrangement of information into grammatical categories.2005, Michael Noonan, “Spatial Reference in Chantyal”, in Yogendra Yadava, Govinda Bhattarai, Ram Raj Lohani, Balaram Prasain, Krishna Parajuli, editors, Contemporary Issues in Nepalese Linguistics...

Forms of Talmian

comparativemore Talmian
superlativemost Talmian
alternative formTalmyan

Origin of Talmian

From Talmy + -an.

Questions about Talmian

What does Talmian mean?
Talmian means relating or according to the linguist Leonard Talmy.
What part of speech is Talmian?
Talmian is an adjective.

Words near Talmian in the dictionary

  1. Talmages
  2. Talmalmo
  3. talmas
  4. talmbout
  5. talmessite
  6. Talmian
  7. talmid
  8. talmouse
  9. talmouses
  10. Talmud
  11. talmudic

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