Re: Language Requirements

Leon Lin skrev:
 > Hello,
 >
 >   Yes, I'd like that too. I've been searching around for
 >   such a thing. One incomplete list can be found at
 >
 >   http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/fieldtools/linguaQ.html
 >
 >   -Leon

Incomplete? Rather it is an extensive checklist how
languages *may* rather than *must* express certain
categories. A lot of the categories listed there are absent
from some languages, and a lot of languages have far less
fine-grained distinctions within various categories than
others. There are, after all, languages that totally lack
tense, mode, voice and aspect, for example.

Has anyone seen section 2.1.1.5? Now that *is* handy! Now
imagine a language with 82 local cases! :-) Just to find
names for all those cases seems like a job for Superman!

 >
 > Jason Monti <yukatado@...> wrote: Okay,
 >
 > Somewhere, a long while back, someone posted a link to a
 > humongous list of things that every language must be able
 > to do. Does anyone still have that link and can they
 > either e-mail it to me, or post it to the list?
 >
 > Much thanks in advance.

Look for "Describing morphosyntax" by Thomas payne at
<bookfinder.com>!


/BP 8^)>
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