[càːl] be reflected in, e.g. `Abac is reflected in her daughter'. Shilluk – 175,000 speakers – Sudan and South Sudan This verb is similar to English resemble, except the way we interpret subject and object is reversed: the subject is the source of the resemblance, not the reflection. This can be seen from the following example, where Abac is the subject. ábác ɲāaar-ɛ̄ á-càaal-ɛ̀ Abac daughter-3S PAST-be.reflected-3SG 'Abac is reflected in her daughter.' As Fillmore (1977:74) said "Languages, and lexical items, differ in interesting ways in the options they present in taking particular perspectives on complex scenes." Credit: Bert Remijsen and Otto Gwado Ayoker (field notes) ![]()
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