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6.12 PartonomyTaxonomy: PART OF, KIND OF

In the corpus, we found evidence for the following NSM frame for PART: X IS A PART OF Y We are missing evidence for the frame: Y, THERE ARE X PARTS This is another accidental gap in our data since examples of PART are very rare. The following sentence sounds perfectly fine: 152 ea fiota get chri pat ‘There are three parts in an air filter’ The syntax for PART has been a matter of controversy in NSM. In Goddard and W’s 1994 study, PART was singled as the most problematic primitive across languages. Examples of the following syntactic valences for KIND were found in our corpus: X IS A KIND OF Y X IS THE SAME KIND AS Y THERE ARE X KINDS OF Y There are no missing valences.

6.13 LIKE

The following syntactic patterns were found for the primitive LIKE: I AM LIKE X SOMEONE IS LIKE X PEOPLE ARE LIKE X SOMETHING IS LIKE X X IS LIKE ME X IS LIKE YOU X IS LIKE SOMEONE If someone hit the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel with a rotten tomato, we could say that Judas is under the tomato even if Judas is spatially located above the tomato. So it is possible that there is a sense of under which contains a component like: people cannot see this thing because something else is in front of it. If this is true, perhaps I could explain oddness of sentence 151 by saying that there is no corresponding separate sense of above containing the component people can see this thing because something else is behind it. Nevertheless, I think this counter-example warrants further investigation. 347 X IS LIKE PEOPLE X IS LIKE SOMETHING X IS LIKE THIS X LIKE ME X LIKE YOU X LIKE SOMEONE X LIKE SOMETHING X LIKE THIS SAY-Clause LIKE THIS: HAPPEN-Clause LIKE THIS: DO-Clause LIKE THIS: Clause1 AS LIKE Clause2 There were two patterns missing. YOU ARE LIKE X THIS IS LIKE X This gap is also accidental. Its presence is not surprising given the number of valences associated with this primitive. As one would expect, the following sentences sound fine: 153 yu jalaik da hasbaen, onli gud fo it aen waech tivi. ‘You are like themy husband. All you do is eat and watch TV.’ 154 dis jalaik heidn maengo, onli mo suit. ‘This is like a Hayden mango, except that it is sweeter.’

6.14 BECAUSE