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Forbidden transitivity, was: My new conlang

From:Vasiliy Chernov <bc_@...>
Date:Friday, December 14, 2001, 19:20
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 07:06:08 -0500, Adam Walker <dreamertwo@...>
wrote:

[replying to Christophe]
>> > I >> > mean the verbs will not permit a seond argument of ANY type. You could >> > not >> > even say "He went to the store," sine NOTHING zipo nada is allowed in >> > that >> > slot. NO arguement of ANY kind, not even in a prepositional phrase.
How about *verbs* as arguments?
>> > In fact you couldn't even have a >> > compound subject.
>Well you could comcine sentences but you must have only one argument per >verb. > >>How would you translate: "He went to the store"? "He went. To the store >>went"? > >He store went-to was-arrived-at.
Should this example be analyzed as: (he went-to) [whereas] (store) (was arrived-at) {wich altered order} - which IMO resembles a verbal argument?
>It was probably the weirdest of many weird things born from this strange >little cranium.
Weird enough... therefore, cool - if only it works ;) Basilius -