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Tasneem Book thanked Ray Dart's answer
I know that a lexical gap is when the grammar of a language could permit a word to exist, but it doesn't exist. How might the grammar of a language not permit a word to exist in one language when it does in another? Can you give me an example?

I remember reading, some years ago, about the differences in the way numbers are represented. The entire "civilised" world (quotes used deliberately) will understand the concept of a hundred or a thousand. There are a number of peoples in Papua New Guinea who progressively revert to "a lot" as a description of a number of … Read more

Tasneem Book
Tasneem Book thanked Anonymous' answer
I know that a lexical gap is when the grammar of a language could permit a word to exist, but it doesn't exist. How might the grammar of a language not permit a word to exist in one language when it does in another? Can you give me an example?

The only thing I can think of is a situation where a language has developed TOTALLY INDEPENDENT of any other languages, such as in the rain forest,  or on tropical islands, where a group of people have been isolated from the beginning of their tribe to where their language was absolutely unobstructed in formation by … Read more