Re: A Language built around a novel grammar
| From: | Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 19, 2006, 14:28 |
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Hallo!
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006 16:56:31 +0100, Henrik Theiling wrote:
> In abstract considerations about engelangs, my conclusion was usually
> the opposite: I had severe problems defining a criterion to
> distinguish verbal and nominal lexicon entries (I am not talking about
> functions in a sentence) that was not totally arbitrary.
Yes. All content words, such as nouns, adjectives and verbs, are
essentially predicate symbols, and it is thus hardly surprising that
languages such as Lojban make no distinction between them.
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