Re: New language grammar--what needs work?

Let's try those.  Also never mind, verbs don't explicitly need
prepositions (comefrom-INDIC-PR-1PS-GIVEN_O vancouver-OBJECT means "I
come from Vancouver"), but if needed for more detail, they can be
used.

Here's an example of how I morphed the English to my lang.
I am sitting under the chair outside the house. (Initial)
sit.indic.pr.1ps.gvo under the chair outside the house. (Take care of
the easy stuff.)
sit.indic.pr.1ps.gvo chair(house-outside)under.obj (Final.  The
semicolon separates the two entities, which form one noun.  These, as
written in the grammar, are parsed right to left, so we get "under (an
outside-a-house) chair".

Also thanks for all the help.  You're whipping the initial grammar
into shape, and it might just be useful eventually.

Another one:
I walked in the mud on the road near the forest.
walk.indic.pa.1ps.gvo (in the (on the road (near the forest)) mud).obj
walk.indic.pa.1ps.gvo mud(forest-near(road-on))on.obj

On 12/2/05, Ph.D. <phil@...> wrote:
> veritosproject@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > On 12/2/05, Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > OK.  How would you express spatial relationships like
> > > "under", "inside", etc?  Will they be marked by
> > > affixing the location or motion verb rather than adpositions
> > > on the noun phrase?
> >
> > Those would be the verbs.  i.e. The phrase "I am sitting under
> > the chair" would not have a verb "to sit" , but "to sit under".
>
> What about sentences such as "I am sitting under the chair
> outside the house" or "I walked in the mud on the road near the
> forest" ?
>
>
> --Ph. D.
>