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Re: valency question

From:Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...>
Date:Friday, May 11, 2001, 0:20
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Muke Tever wrote:

> How do natlangs and conlangs handle making distinctions between sentences like > these? English uses word order (with intonation differences too, I think), > but I wonder about other ways (are there any?).
Hungarian, for one, uses different verbs for each one in the example...
> > John called the beaver ugly. > John called the ugly beaver. > > Beth named José Gaia. > Beth named Gaia José.
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