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

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Date:Wednesday, September 15, 1999, 16:02
Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 15/09/99 16:12:02  , vous avez =E9crit :

> > yes. but conversely ti-nyakplak-a or whatever ti-coyote-a is > morphologically > > a verb but semantically not. > =20 > That's what I thought and what I'm doubting the more I think of it. Is it > semantically not? Who says it isn't? I, because it isn't in my language? =
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> howfar is my perception of the world a part of the problem? > =20
hmm. yeah. what i've learned is that there is an entity somewhere behaving somehow. no need to use syntax to get that go+coyote suggests a coyote going her way or an action of going taking the "shape" of a coyote. which one "is" the entity and which one "is" the behaviour doesn't change much here. but try to figure out vehicle+shelter. i guess you need to point which one "is" what. well, i do. don't you ? mathias