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Re: GROUPLANG: theme

From:Carlos Thompson <cthompso@...>
Date:Thursday, October 15, 1998, 10:39
De: Christophe Grandsire <Christophe.Grandsire@...>
Fecha: Jueves 15 de Octubre de 1998 03:01


>>> My idea is: let's mark theme with a prefix (added to the >>>already-case-inflected word) or with a postposition, and then delete it
in
>>>the next sentences, just as in Japanese; OR let's not mark it! >>I vote for no prefix or posposition mark... as I've point out in previuos >>messages >> > If we don't mark the theme with a grammatical feature, I think we >should put it mandatorily at the beginning of the sentence (so allowing OSV >structures if the theme is the object). I like the fact that the theme can >be recognized immediately.
It would be the only word with no case/PoS mark, I think is no hard to recognize. -- Carlos Th
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