Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Conference Overview

From: "John Quijada" <jq_ithkuil@...>
Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2006 3:45 AM

> Doug Ball (a PhD candidate in linguistics at Stanford and
> former student of Sally Caves in Rochester NY) spoke on
> linear syntactical movements in various natural languages
> which, though technical, is an important topic in
> designing nat-lang style conlangs for increased realism.
Explain, please, anyone? *notes to google for this himself*

Has this something to do with (anti-)dative movement and
other such valency increasing/decreasing actions, by any
chance? If not, what is "linear syntactical movement"?

Thanks,
Carsten

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