Re: Appositives, more gender, careers

Matt McLauchlin wrote:

> >>I should have mentioned that in cases like Masiu Makláklan, the second
> >>name is treated as an apposite to the first one, i.e. it always is left
> >>alone in the nominative, although the first one can be marked for case
> >>depending on which declension it fits in
> >Right.  This follows the convention in many European languages with case
> >systems.   I was just reading the line at the beginning of the Iliad the
> >other day:
> [...]
>
> Actually, that's not what I meant at all; quite the opposite. Look at this:
Yeah, I realize... I hadn't read it clearly (I have been REALLY distracted
and busy lately).  But in rereading what you wrote now, appositives are
almost universally held in the same case as the phrases with which they are
apposite.  This is, in fact, one reason not to treat the English genitive marker
<'s> not as a case ending, but as a clitic.

You can, of course, break that language univeral (most universals are
statistical anyways).  But what's the motivation for it? That's the important,
and interesting, thing about conlinguistics for me:  coming up with novel,
but reasoned, structures for a human language.

> But mainly - you're talking about a university here, not an apprenticeship.
> People these days are much too obsessed with what would help their careers
> versus what would improve and stimulate their intellectual life.
To an extent, certainly.  But there are two extremes to that metric there.

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