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Re: GROUPLANG: theme

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Thursday, October 15, 1998, 7:46
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 > > >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. Christophe Grandsire |Sela Jemufan Atlinan C.G. homepage: http://www.bde.espci.fr/homepage/Christophe.Grandsire/index.html