[Look ma, No verbs!]
From: | Edward Heil <edwardheil@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, April 14, 1999, 4:37 |
Some suggestions....
1. When you're getting so sparse, why bother with singulars and plurals? =
If
necessary, throw in an adjective for "single" or "multiple." Otherwise, =
leave
it unspecified.
2. Zero-mark nouns so as to make incorporation of proper nouns easier. T=
hen
you just have to mark the adjectives.
3. How do you say "it was raining?" :)
4. Sounds like for every action you are going to have to invent a bunch o=
f
different adjectives for every participant. Why not have a root for each=
activity and have common affixes for different roles, so that a bunch of
adjectives are pregenerated?
5. If you implemented #4, you would end up repeating the root several tim=
es
per sentence. You could make it omissible all but once. But if you did =
that,
it would seem like the root was a verb and the affixes were casemarkers!
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