Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
| From: | Tom Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, September 14, 1999, 15:39 |
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Charles wrote:
> But AFAIK there are no natlangs lacking fairly obvious verbs and
> nouns,
Josh Roth, inter alia, has already well addressed this topic.
> or excluding "valency" 3, the more-or-less indirect object.
See Comrie, "Language Universals and Linguistic Typology" p.59-61,
for some discussion on why English syntax may not warrant a separate
category for "indirect object".
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