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Re: Implied prepositions

From:Larry Sulky <larrysulky@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 19, 2006, 21:59
Here's how Lume has gone:

Assume three verbs: "to put", "to be inside of" and "to belong to".
Then we express "I put the apple in the basket" as:

"I put apple be-inside-of basket"

and "I give the apple to Anna" as:

"I put apple belong-to Anna"

The sense of causation is implicit in the constructions; in fact, they
might better be translated as

"I put apple such-that-it-be-inside-of basket"

and

"I put apple such-that-it-belong-to Anna"

as long as it's understood that the "such-that-it" aspect disappears
when these verbs are used as main verbs

--larry
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