Re: CHAT: Re : Re: Tlvn, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius

From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

> Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 14/09/99 18:33:41  , Charles a =E9crit :
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> >  In that sense, Spanish may not "warrant". But it's nonsense,
> >  e.g. in "I'm telling you this" I count 1 verb and 3 nominals.
> > =20
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> the question is rather : why 1-, 2- or 3-valency-mapping all over the
world,
> in ANY language and not 4, 5 or 6, etc. ?
> THAT is the tremendously interesting fact i wonder since i'ved learned =
and
> used foreign, "exotic" languages.
> there are 3 "core slots" as joshuah shinavier would say.
> so why try to occult that universal reality and fodder myths of
mathematically
> driven, pseudo-linguistical myths of "logical" binary valency-mapping
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> ?
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> "LINGO-MERMAID NOT DEAD"
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> it's time conlangers take linguistic power.
> (hint to our fresh and brilliant american universitary fellow conlanger=
s
;-)

It could be that Charles Sanders Pierce was right after all, and
there are three ultimate categories of experience: Firstness,
Secondness, and Thirdness, and that any relation involving more than
three participants is reducible to relations among three participants,
but that trinary relations are not reducible.

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