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Re: Requesting some challenging sentences

From:Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
Date:Tuesday, October 25, 2005, 21:38
--- Jonathan Knibb <j_knibb@...> wrote:

> Gary, > > fascinating grammar! Would love to see where you go > with this. >
Curious that I could get this far on the grammar and never stop to consider transitive verbs!!! For some reason it never crossed my mind, and yet such simple utterences as "John gave the book to Mary" are pretty convoluted in the basic grammar. I can see where I need to ponder your suggestions and sample sentences further. :-) Thanks for those observations. --gary
> I have one comment and three suggestions. The > comment: if I understand > correctly, only two word classes are distinguished > by the basic syntax, > namely S/A positions (interchangeable) and O > positions. Why distinguish more > word classes on a lexical level? > > Suggestions: >
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