Re: GROUPLANG: theme

At 21:02 14/10/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Let's begin usung the GROUPLANG tag...
>
>> 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!
>
>
>> --Pablo Flores
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>
>I vote for no prefix or posposition mark... as I've point out in previuos
>messages
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>
        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.

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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