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Re: Looking for a case: counting

From:takatunu <takatunu@...>
Date:Wednesday, February 18, 2004, 21:13
Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote:

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To me the biggest problem is not that we have to add and add more marks on the verb, its is to decide in which way these different marks should combine. It's not just 'Verb + a + b + c', it can be 'Verb + a + b', then adding a c-mark modifying the modifier a, but not the modifier b (neither the whole complex) for ex., thus sthg like: 'Verb + c(a) + b' <<<< In quite a few langs the following English sentence: "I drive Ms X to the city in my car every day." is expressed as: "I get in (and) operate my car; Ms X sits in this car; (We) go to the city; This happens everyday." Now in that sentence where is the adverb, the circumstance, the manner, the instrument, the iterative, etc.? Your lill midget PAST, IRR, ASS etc. "modifiers" are a doomed, perverted and artificially complex distortion of this true and only Primitive way to express oneself :-))) µ.

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