At 12:50 28/06/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>Is that what they call a "serial verb construction"? I've heard of such
>things but know nothing about them in detail.
>
Many pidgins and creoles use this system. I find it pretty nice, and the
structure of Notya seems quite fit to serial verb contructions.
>
>I see the (conceptualized) world as consisting of an unspeakably complex
>webwork of entites linked to each other; some of these entities are things,
>and others are states/processes/events, and traditional syntax requires us to
>choose a state/process/event as a focus and discuss the one or more things
>which are linked to it.
>
That's my opinion too. Language merely cuts in pieces an unspeakable
continuum of concepts, and each language cuts it in a different way. And I
like languages that cut it in unusual ways :)) .
>
>Sentences like "something bothered me, so I sat and thought, in order to
>understand it" are much easier to phrase in Taxy (as I hope to revise it,
>using indirect objects to represent Intentions) than in English:
>
> S V IO DO DO
>Bother me understand sit and think.
>
>But I do realize that Taxy reverses a very basic principle of human language
>in general -- the verb as the centerpiece of the sentence.
>
That's what's really neat about it!!!
Christophe Grandsire
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