Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: THEORY: Adpositional Heads

From:Rob Haden <magwich78@...>
Date:Thursday, September 11, 2003, 2:55
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 22:09:21 -0400, Rob Haden <magwich78@...> wrote:

>On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 21:00:41 -0500, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> >wrote: > >>Actually, it's ambiguous. It could describe where the man was. If it's >>adverbial, then it would describe where the seeing took place, that is, >>I was in the house, and I saw a man. If it's adjectivial, then it >>describes where the man was. > >Exactly my point.
A language that required PPs to modify the verb or noun directly before/after it would be far less ambiguous, no? - Rob