Re: valency question
| From: | Frank George Valoczy <valoczy@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, May 11, 2001, 0:20 |
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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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