65 Raining constructions

This feature is described more fully in chapter 65.

Summary

Meteorological events are not expressed uniformly across languages, and they also exhibit interesting variation in the APiCS languages, which is the focus of the present feature. Since languages often code different meteorological events ('the sun in shining', 'it is raining', 'there is a thunderstorm', etc.) with different syntactic constructions, we consider exclusively the situation 'it is raining'.

Authors

Susanne Maria Michaelis and the APiCS Consortium

Values

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Rain falls341448
Rain rains3710
It rains61016
Rains9817
It gives rain011
Rain exists112
Representation:73

Language Value Lexifier Details Source
Id Primary text Analyzed text Gloss Translation Type Language Audio Details