On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 17:29:54 -0500
The Gray Wizard <dbell@...> wrote:
> > Perhaps you could have a 'valence' inflection (or particle, or whatever)
> > on the verb which specifies how many and what kind of 'arguments'
> > the verb takes. I learnt a lot about this kind of thing from David Bell's
> > grammar of ámman îar (thanks David!). You can see the kind of valencies
> > that his language inflects for at section 7.3 on
> >
http://www.graywizard.net/Conlinguistics/amman_iar/ai_predicate_mo
> > rphology.htm
> > You might need to read the section at
> >
http://www.graywizard.net/Conlinguistics/preliminaries.htm
> > too, in order to understand the dialect of English used in this grammar ;)
>
> "understand the dialect of English used in this grammar"? Hmmm, could it be
> that my maladroit elucidations might not have been posed in as luculent a
> presentation as might be required? I'll have to work on that. ;-)
Well, I don't think it's such a problem - in fact your descriptions are wonderfully
clear, once one has been initiated. Oddly, the experience of understanding certain
sentences there felt rather like the experience of reading the proof of a mathematical
theorem - a feeling of things slotting in as I read...
'luculent' - that's not quite a cromulent word, is it ? ;)
>
> Stay curious,
> David
Stephen