Re: Re : Case, Innateness, Almost Allnoun, NGL.

I seriously believe Mathias is the great Verb-Sage of Conlang.  I have
neither studied enough on verbs in real-world linguistics, nor worked
hard enough on my own on a verbal system for a conlang, to appreciate
much of the wisdom he imparts, but should I embark on either of those
endeavors I will become his attentive disciple.

Ed Heil
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Worship the potato? The idea seemed silly to me. But then
I thought, what else is more deserving of worship? It's simple,
it comes from the earth, and it can kill you if you disobey it.
   -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey (Saturday Night Live - NBC)

From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 30/07/99 03:09:35  , Jim a =E9crit :
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> > [Main Point glk]:
> >  xxxx  an argument for a localist hypothesis of case roles and
> >  clause structure as part of the genetic endowment of the human
> >  species.
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> >  This post is a commentary on a web document with the above url, poin=
ted
> >  out on Conlang by Charles, which I find very interesting and I want =
to
> >  share my reactions to it. It has a lot to say about case, and I have
> >  added some conclusions of my own about a verb-minimalist approach to
> >  language. I have made very large unmarked deletions in it; it is bes=
t
> >  to read the original. VST stands for Vector Space Tense as I have
> >  developed it in the Conlang posted series and Writekit. NGL stands f=
or
> >  Next Generation Language as published at ngl@onelist.com.
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> >  NOTE:
> >  Throughout this web document my (Gerald Koenig's) comments appear
> >  initiated by my initials, glk, and ended by a line, thus:
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> >  Scott DeLancy's words.
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> i read it. the NGL stuff is slightly simplistic.
> you may want to listen to your children and ponder :
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> (i) attribute vs. entity
> (ii) notional vs. spatio-temporal
> (iii) extent vs. extremal
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> and a few other ***s when these above are cleared up.
> "tense" is off-topic : rather discuss "aspect".
> as for "verb-minimalist", i think speaking of "verb" is
> already mixing PoS and cases.
> and discussing "recipient" without pondering "result"
> is nonsense.
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> mathias
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