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Re: New language grammar--what needs work?

From:Ph.D. <phil@...>
Date:Saturday, December 3, 2005, 3:34
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.

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