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Re: Another new project and trigger languages

From:Amanda Babcock <langs@...>
Date:Monday, January 13, 2003, 14:10
On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:15:29PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:

> For one of my languages, I'm using a generalization of this. Nouns are > marked with affixes that roughly correspond to their "rank" of > importance in the sentence (one of them is most important, although > beyond that they're pretty much interchangeable), which I'm calling > "ordinals". The verb is marked with the ordinals of its arguments, > inflected to show role (agent, patient, recipient, etc.). Since > adjectives are stative verbs, the possessive form of a noun actually > derives a stative verb, and adverbs are replaced with a "manner" > case-role, word order is incredibly free. Is this a workable system?
This is beautiful! I'm jealous. I'm always casting about for original ways to represent things, and I think you've found that here. Amanda

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