Re: New Site: New Language: Tyl-Sjok

Hi!

Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> writes:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 Henrik Theiling wrote:
> [SNIP]
> >       4) good father have son REF.
> >          `It is good that the father has a son.'
> [SNIP]
> > Well, usually, many of these ambiguities don't occur: if `strong'
> > instead of `good' was used, the interpretation as a full sub-clause
> > would not be possible: *`It is strong that the father has a son?'.
>
> Actually, such an interpretation would be possible.
> I'll explain how:
...snip...
> For example, if the mental-state meaning for "strong" is
> "certainty", then "It is strong that the father has a son" means
> that the speaker is certain that the father has a son.
Ah, interesting.  Good, then, in that case, you also need particles to
disambiguate. :-))

Actually, the way of constructing this language seems to be by finding
out corollaries of the very simples constraints I formulated in the
beginning.  It's more like research than like contructing.  Just like
now as you pointed this out to me. :-)

**Henrik