Re: New Langage "Tyl-Seok": Similar ideas? (Was: Translation pattern of `to have'?)

Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> schrieb:
> >  A2: That I know the man drives the car. (quite unlikely...)
I meant `The car is driven by the fact that I know the man.' Which
is an unlikely interpretation in this particular world.

> He he, when I told you that the rule of Notya was underspecification :) , you
> don't even have a word for "drive" (since when you use a car, it's usually to
> drive it, not to carry it on your head :) ).
Oh, yes, right.  I did not think that far.  I *have* to adopt that
feature. :-) Simply drop the above word `drive' then and use `car' as
a verb whose agent is `man'. :-) (I will run into some problems,
though).

**Henrik

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