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Re: Language Sketch: Gogido

From:<phil@...>
Date:Monday, August 25, 2008, 21:07
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.