Re: OT: THEORY Fusion Grammar

Gary wrote:
<<
Hypothesis: For any language, when two elements of a
sentence have an important relationship with each
other, those two elements will be immediately adjacent
in the sentence
 >>

Check out iconicity:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconicity

Thought we discussed it on the list recently...  There was
a paper I read on it in some class, the point essentially being
that related elements in a sentence will tell you how related
they are to one another by their distance.  Looks like there's
a whole journal devoted to it now...  Anyway, it may or may
not be relevant.

-David
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