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

From:And Rosta <a.rosta@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 5, 2004, 1:08
Tommie L Powell:
> And Rosta wrote: > > > Politically, of course. But not linguistically. I think it is > > instructive to realize that a language that has the > > expressive capabilities of a natlang but that is > > unambiguous is linguistically achievable. > > Actually, there are some natlangs that are very nearly > impossible to make ambiguous statements in (without > violating mandatory rules of grammar). Czech is one
I react with polite skepticism. I wonder whether you are thinking only of syntactic ambiguity? (I have often heard it said that languages with well-marked case systems are less prone to ambiguity.) --And.