Linguistic Modeling for Multilingual Machine Translation

116 CHAPTER 11. LEXICAL FUNCTIONS
order to establish reference. Further examples come from Russian and Serbo-
Croatian for the concept of 'Russian' and 'Serbian'. Spanish frequently uses
support nouns for colours:
(175) a. German:
ein Japaner - eine Japanerin
a Japan MASC - a Japan FEM
`a Japanese man - a Japanese woman'
b. ein Weiser - eine Weise
a wise MASC - a wise FEM
`a wise man - a wise woman'
c. Russian:
na russkom zyke
na russkom jazyke
on Russian language
`in Russian'
d. Serbo-Croatian:
na srpskom jeziku
on Serbian language
`in Serbian'
e. Spanish:
de color naranja
of colour orange
`orange'
In any of these cases the concept is expressed by an adjective plus a supporting
noun, where the semantic space denoted by the adjective is included in the
space denoted by the noun (cf. (62), pg.46). Comparing the inclusion relation
of Japanese and man with the concept relation of white car in (61) pg.45, it
becomes clear that we have to use the adjective as the base for the translation.
Accordingly, the German noun Japaner is mapped onto the English adjective
Japanese (cf. (176a)). The support noun man has to be regenerated according
to monolingual lexical specications between IS and CS (cf. (176b)).
IS
(176) a.
a
p
sit japan in bus