Re: CHAT: EU allumettes (was: Re: THEORY/CHAT: Talmy, Jackendoff and Matchboxes

Mark L. wrote:

"I'll get right on it as soon as y'all have completed the requirements
document (where I can find the specification of "optimal grammar")."

What I was actually thinking of was surveying the EU languages to find
whether a feature should be included or not: Do most languages have
prepositions or postpositions or case suffixes etc.? What about articles?
And participles? etc. etc. etc. If X is really unnecessary and difficult for
speakers of languages without X (like articles), they won't be included
then. But I guess that's too subjective...? And I was thinking we could
exclude things like gendered nouns (including such pronouns), adjective-noun
agreement, more than one paradigm for verbs, ambiguities like not knowing
what a word's part of speech is, irregular verbs etc.

Trebor.

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