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Re: New Site: New Language: Tyl-Sjok

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 24, 2001, 21:17
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:
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> 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