At 20:46 09/10/98 -0000, you wrote:
>Lets take my ideas:
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>> Prefixes:
>> predicate: a-
>> patient: e-
>> agent: o-
>> theme: -
>> modifier: i-
>> other: uX-
>> negative: -ri-
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>> Postfixes:
>> indefinite/qualifier: -a
>> definite/perfect/determinant: -o
>> plural/repetitive: -j-
>> singular/(one time only) -w-
>> static/inanimate: make previous consonant voiceless (h)
>> dynamic/animate: make previous consonant voiced (n)
>>
>> una(awake)no i(me)a upi(memory)ho i(lost)no upe(dream)njo (you)nwo e(me)nwo
>> i(think)ho a(see)hjo
>> I think I've seen you in my dreams lost in my memory at waking
>>
>> _____
>> Carlos Eugenio Thompson Pinzsn
>>
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Rue/9028/
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>Sorry Carlos,
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>I sent 2 posts before reading yours and I realize you endeavoured the same
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>May we have some respite to think of your proposal ?
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>I understand you prefer mixing in the same tag the case and the part of
speach. I mean for example agent noun is executed as
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>'noun+agent-tag_word'
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>As you can read, I've thought of
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>'noun-tag_word_agent-tag'
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>But that was no claim from me.
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>We have very close ideas.
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>Maybe due to the fact we're Latin speakers ?
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>Like you do I quite like topic, agent/patient system.
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>Don't you want antipatient as well to save verbs and cases like in Japanese ?
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>mieru > miru > miseru > misaseru
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>to appear > to see > to make it appear (= to show) > to make him see (to
show something)
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>What are the suggestions of Pablo, Herman & alia ?
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>>
I was thinking of something like this for adjectives. As I already
said, I like adjectives behaving like verbs. If we use a differentiation
like perfect/imperfect, we could make:
topic (or patient?)+ perfect-adjective: to be+adjective.
topic (or patient?)+ imperfect-adjective: to become+adjective.
agent+patient+ imperfect-adjective: to make someone become+adjective.
agent+patient+ imperfect-adjective: to have made so become+adjective.
I think it could easily be used for every style of verb (at least
intransitive ones. By the way, shall we use transitive/intransitive
differentiation? I think it can be changed).
Christophe Grandsire
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