Re: Mapwords
From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, July 22, 2003, 8:17 |
At 11:55 21/07/2003 -0400, Ted E. Saratoga wrote:
>Shouldn't each mapword either precede or follow the word
>providing semantic content?
>
>This would have precedent (to a degree) in various human languages.
>
That's just perfectly ordinary grammatical particles - Japanese works that
way. The idea of a mapword is something that maps out the gramatical
structure of the whole sentence. As you said in another message, possibly
difficult for humans to use especially for long sentences.
Pete