22 Feb 2012

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There are two classifiers that have an emotional component:
uɨ́¹~uú¹~huɨ́¹ nice, pleasant, desirable, such as pigs, money, bananas, chewing gum, and salt;

ʔná¹ unpleasant, unfriendly, unpalatable, disagreeable, such as beans, bananas, candy, food, honey, child, and dog.

[…] ʔná¹ also has a reverse meaning as produced in English with ‘terribly nice’, meaning pleasant, or palatable with foods such as tortillas, bread, tamales, tacos, dried meat, and gelatin dessert.

—David Foris, ‘The Sochiapan Chinantec Noun Phrase’

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