Re: Looking for a case: counting

Sure. I would propose do to it even easier:
- Hello John.
- Hello Koko.
- Koko want banana.
- Koko not glad.
- Here banana.
- Banana good.
- John good.
- Koko want sleep.
- Koko good.


--- takatunu <takatunu@...> wrote:
> Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrote:
>
> >>>>
> 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.

=====
Philippe Caquant

"Le langage est source de malentendus."
(Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

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