Re: affixes

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 06:01:53PM -0500, # 1 wrote:
> OK I'll try to reformulate your explaination just to know if I understood
It sounds like you understand perfectly.  Some notes:

> Case marks would act that way with a single noun
As with other syntactic models, you can mix analysis and synthesis.  A
case mark could either be part of the noun, or be a unary operator
("unary" = "takes one argument").  As an example of this in the
mathematical world, a negative number like "-123" can be considered as
an argument  (the - is just part of the number), or as the unary
operator "-" (negation) applied to the argument "123", which would be in
postfix something like 123-.  But since using "-" for both subtraction
and negation would be ambiguous, most postfix systems either allow forms
like "-123" and treat a - followed by a digit differently from a - by
itself, or else use a different symbol - for instance, negative numbers
in the UNIX program dc are marked with a _ instead of a -.

> On verbal operators, I don't know how would be indicated the TAM, would they
> be forced to be affixed on the verb or should there have a third level of
> operators to affect the other operators? There's probably a way to pass over
> it without create 3rd and 4th levels..
Again, it could be either analytic (affixed) or synthetic (an operator).

-Marcos

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