Re: Another new project and trigger languages

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From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>

> 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
I second that!  This sounds terrific.  Can you give a more detailed example,
Garth?


Sally Caves
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