Re: Natural Order of Events

It is, actually rather logical. (Or so I have always thought, and wondered
why there was a need for such research.)

To do an action, everything you need has to be present first. Logically,
this extends to conveyance of information: Your listener needs to know
everything involved in the action before he or she can make a link.
Therefore all arguments need to be enumerated before the interaction between
them is described. Speech can do away with that, because of the added
parsing flexibility with pauses, intonation and other suprasegmental
features.

Or am I wrong?

Eugene

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Falcata Lusa <falcata.lusa@...> wrote:

> I found this while browsing for word order.
> May be of interest to someone.
>
> http://news.uchicago.edu/news.php?asset_id=1401
>
> It's about how mind appears to have a consistent way of organizing an event
> that defies the order in which subjects, verbs, and objects typically
> appear
> in languages.
>
> Do you ever think about how your conlang speakers would communicate if they
> were deprived of their language (written or spoken)?
> --
> Falcata Lusa
>

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