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Re: How many verbs?

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 13, 2004, 17:49
--- Sylvia Sotomayor <kelen@...> wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2004 12:10, Gary Shannon wrote:
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> Kélen has 4 'verbs' (called 'relationals'). They are > LA, which denotes the > existence of something; NI, which denotes a > change-in-state; SE, which > denotes a transaction or something with a source > and/or a goal; and PA which > denotes containment or a whole/part relationship.
Thanks for the info. I really enjoyed looking at your Kélen page. It's well thought out and quite impressive, while being completely different from the language I had in mind for my current experiment with verbs. I especially like the "box script". It's quite beautiful. --gary