pointing means in front of when using anatomical directional terms.
pointing means in front of when using anatomical directional terms.
what means in front of when using anatomical directional terms?
pointing
standard anatomical position is rigidly defined for human anatomy. in standard anatomical position, the human body is standing erect and at rest. unlike the situation in other vertebrates, the limbs are placed in positions reminiscent of the supine position imposed on cadavers during autopsy. therefore, the body has its feet together (or slightly separated), and its arms are rotated outward so that the palms are forward, and the thumbs are pointed away from the body (forearms supine). as well, the arms are usually moved slightly out from the body, so that the hands do not touch the sides. the positions of the limbs (and the arms in particular) have important implications for directional terms in those appendages. the penis in the anatomical position is described in its erect position and therefore lies against the abdomen, hence the ventral surface of the penis is actually anterior when the penis is pointing down between the legs.
standard anatomical position
postpositional object marking is demonstrated in the examples below. postpositions can stand by themselves, as in the example '"3s was playing with it",' or attach to the verbal complex.









































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complex directional systems and directional terms have been described in ahtna, slavey, kaska, koyukon, tsek'ene, and witsuwitʼen. directional terms are composed of a directional root, prefixes which describe distance, and suffixes which indicate motion or rest.









































section::::grammar.:syntax.









































like most athabaskan languages, basic word order in babine-witsuwitʼen is subject-object-verb (sov), demonstrated in the example below.









































section::::grammar.:syntax.:grammatical relations.
babine-witsuwitʼen language