Re: Conlang Typology Survey
From: | Matt Trinsic <trinsic@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 21:44 |
Nik Taylor wrote:
> Matt Trinsic wrote:
>
>>Six: Thing, Person, Place, Proper Thing, Proper Person, Proper Place
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> Interesting. So, examples would be, say, "apple", "girl", "island",
> "The Statue of Liberty", "Alice", and "Hawaii"?
>
Exactely =) Although the place case is a bit more inclusive then
standard english definition would tend to indicate. Times ('tomarrow',
'later') are also cased as places, as are some relational words
('inside', 'under').
And hey, thats a great quote =)
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