> > Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 07/06/99 18:21:50 , charles a =E9crit :
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> > you can define them provided you STOP equating action-and-state with=20
"verb"
> > and substance with "noun". try "predicate" and "substantive" instead an=
d
> > ponder about what "argument" is. do, be, have.
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> Yes, I agree. It is good to invent some useful categories,
> but not to mistakenly reify them. Those 50 operators/functions
> may not "be" adverbs/auxiliaries/classifiers/conjunctions.
> I think syntax should be well-separated from semantics, at least during=20
analysis and maybe by design.
you got it : first un-aspectivize, then analyse, and lastly design. i'm=20
afraid you get around 50 though, not speaking of spatial "references" (excep=
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for "base", "illative" and "ablative" because mankind is no elohim). that ma=
y=20
be God's retaliation for Babel's blunder ;-).=20
So "adjective"
> might mean "some kind of noun modifier" but not necessarily
> "an inherent or contingent quality of a being or essence".
exactly. adjective is no equative. go on.
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> > > Though the mathematician Couturat had a major role in
> > > designing parts of Ido, and Peano (famous for his set theory)
> > > invented an auxlang (Interlingua, the first of that name)
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> > > neither was especially logical in its design or constructions.
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> > did you ever wonder why ?
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> Yes; they knew what they were not doing; Jesperson, de Wahl too.
> The goal was "just" to unite Europe linguistically, to prevent
> World Wars I and II.
exactly. and as a romance speaker i favour the best common latin idiom.
Mathematical logic was in no danger.
(it'll be in a few years.)
> And logic is in no way incompatible with natural language.
perfectly true. maths were considered Logics and natlang an imperfect=20
application thereof.
> But to further discuss auxlangery here would be dangerous.
> Come over to AUXLANG, which is nearly comatose.
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no way. i prefer here because all dead-serious issues are likely to end with=20
some "in my conlang 'xswartyzep' means both and neither"-kind of post. i fin=
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this more reasonable.
mathias