Re: Lisanek
| From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, October 22, 2001, 0:02 |
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In a message dated Sat, 20 Oct 2001 5:21:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
SuomenkieliMaa <suomenkieli@...> writes:
> --- David Peterson <DigitalScream@...> wrote:
> > In a message dated 10/19/01 10:05:11 AM,
> > wachevrier@HOTMAIL.COM writes:
> >
> > << The man who left the room is a lawyer:
> > man.the leave.CONJUNCT room.the PRED lawyer.a >>
> >
> > Hmm... What does "conjunt" mean? Is it a type
> > of past tense?
>
> Wild guess, but could it stand for "conjunction"?
> Although, I guess it won't make sense to me in the
> above example...
>
> Matt33
>
I don't know if you're familiar with Japanese Grammatical Terms, but, there is a
form that in Classical (i.e. Ancient, or OLD) Japanese, had a similar function.
This was called the Rentai. As Dave already answred, this is kind of just
trivia :)
Elliott