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Ebisedian tutorial update

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Friday, August 30, 2002, 18:37
Hi All.

Here is your latest dose of Ebisedian. ;-)  I've just updated the
Ebisedian tutorial to cover "nominator sentences". Nominator sentences are
sentences consisting of a single noun or noun-phrase. They act like topic
selectors or titles (but occur much more frequently in Ebisedian than
titles would in English), and give rise to a very common topic-comment
construction. Because of the frequency this construct is used, I felt it
was basic to understanding Ebisedian prose, and hence needed to be covered
early on in the tutorial.

As usual, it all seems clear to me, but I need feedback to know if the
tutorial is making is sufficiently clear. So, comments, criticisms,
flames, fan-mail, etc., are hereby solicited. :-) The latest tutorial may
be found at:

(PS)    http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.ps
(PDF)   http://quickfur.yi.org:8080/~hsteoh/conlang/tutorial.pdf


T

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