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Re: Adjectives vs. stative verbs, plus general info

From:Jesse Raccio <jraja0722@...>
Date:Saturday, March 16, 2002, 13:54
> Speaking of which, how would your system handle > many, many adjectives all via relative clauses? (Or > are they called subordinate? Have I been saying > them wrong for years and years?)
Well I figured the subject and object would be able to be stative phrases. In literal english, for the moment, I thought it would read like this. man is big was happy the book is little to the woman gave. The big happy man gave the little book to the woman. I was planning to have case markings be prefixes and the nouns of the above phrase would be marked according to thier case, which I figured would make parsing the sentence easier. Of course using alot of these stative verbs in a chain would really be restricted to the introduction of a new entity in conversation, so that that entity could be fully described by the speaker. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage http://sports.yahoo.com/