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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 > > > 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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