Re: [Conlangs-Conf] Conference Overview

David J. Peterson, On 06/05/2006 19:27:
> Carsten wrote:
> <<
> 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"?
>  >>
>
> No, he was using HPSG.  He was using the idea of linearization
> rules, and pointed to three cross-linguistics tendencies:
>
> (1) Topic precedes focus.
> (2a) Heavy constituents appear sentence-finally.
> (2b) Light elements appear adjacent to the head.
> (3) Agent precedes experience which preceedes patient/theme.
>
> I'll forward your message to Doug; perhaps he can respond in
> full.
And after reading John Q's summary of the talks, I was wondering whether yours,
David, was just espousing a Word-and-Paradigm model of inflection, or whether
it went further and somehow advocated radical suppletion... Perhaps you'd give
a short summary?

--And.

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