Re: Keeping Track of Ambiguity in your Conlang?
| From: | Jeff Jones <jeffsjones@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 31, 2002, 20:18 |
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2002 19:46:07 -0400, John Cowan <jcowan@...>
wrote:
>Roberto Suarez Soto scripsit:
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>> Has it some special use, or is it mainstream?
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>It is certainly not colloquial, but literary: Aragorn asks Arwen
>"Will you cleave to me?" Because of the following proposition,
^^^^^^^^^^^
Don't you mean _prEposition_? It seems to me the whole sentence is the
_prOposition_, in more than one way.
>there is no ambiguity. This is homonymy, not polysemy: the
>two words have different Old English antecedents.
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> --Nicholas van Rijn
> John Cowan <jcowan@...>
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