Re: THEORY: Deriving adjectives from nouns

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 04/06/99 21:51:46  , john a =E9crit :

> Joe Mondello wrote:
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>  > << It is a famous test case. There are many possible meanings.
>  >  How many can your conlang unambiguously distinguish,
>  >  and how intuitive are the constructions? >>
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>  Lojban handles all 40, even after disposing of the ambiguity of
>  "pretty" in favor of "beautiful", not "somewhat".
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i handle all 46 predicate-argument (p-a) relators (r) in 3 possible degrees=20
of integration and in either p-r-a or a-r-p order, as a first, upper level o=
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semantic roles.
tunu does partially the same with only 20 roles or so because that's about=20
what my human brain can handle : i tried hard but 46 is impossible to speak=20
for me.
marcos' adjectives are much to vague for tunuan people.
can't remember how many joshua's danov=EBn uses but anyway he claims they ar=
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useless in the dark-side of semantics.

mathias=20