Re: Language Sketch: Gogido

Logan Kearsley writes:
>
> *On the subject of theta-role marking, I had another idea for sentence
> structure which I don't think I've seen before, and I wonder what
> langs, if any, employ it. The idea is to have the theta-role
> assignment order be integrated into the meaning of every verb. Or,
> another way of putting it, syntax for each clause is defined by the
> verb. So, theta-roles would be assigned to each argument of a verb
> based on the order of the arguments, but the assignment order would
> vary for every verb. Or, one could do a similar thing with
> subject/object categories rather than just straight theta-roles, where
> the subject/object order of each clause is determined by the meaning
> of the verb.

Sounds like Loglan.

 --Ph. D.