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 ConsortiumValues
| excl | shrd | all | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Rain falls | 34 | 14 | 48 |
 | Rain rains | 3 | 7 | 10 |
 | It rains | 6 | 10 | 16 |
 | Rains | 9 | 8 | 17 |
 | It gives rain | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 | Rain exists | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Representation: | 73 | |||
| Language | Value | Lexifier | Details | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Id | Primary text | Analyzed text | Gloss | Translation | Type | Language | Audio | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|