Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, June 23, 1999, 17:09 |
From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:
> did you ever gather on a webpage
> the list of all the lingo urls you mention in your posts ?
My old http://www.catty.com/~catty/bookmarks.htm page has about
70% linguistic-related stuff, and has almost all URLs posted.
> neat. where are your pro-tools to tie plain verbs to their respective actors ?
I have only 2 mechanisms to do anything; the 10 syntactic endings,
and about 40 general semantic classifier roots like "doer" and "tool"
and modifiers like "not". All roots have the same CVC(VC) form so
they compound easily. I don't expect words to grow too long, because,
heretically, I feel that vague imprecise words *do* adequately represent
whatever the speaker means. When/if ambiguity becomes excessive,
more modifiers/classifiers are naturally used to "precise" meaning.
Some people outlaw ambiguity, but I prefer to infer many things at once.
> do you know somewhere i could get a conlanging full-time job (preferably one
> to design pseudo-linguistic theories) ?
Ask Chomsky.