Re: Noun "association"?
| From: | David Starner <starner@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, December 14, 2001, 21:54 |
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On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 03:08:37PM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I've had this idea for a while, but I'm just wondering what you people
> think of it. The main usage is in disambiguating pronouns of identical
> number/gender that happen to refer to different things. What would happen
> is, the first time a noun is used, the speaker prefixes it with a "tag",
> or an "association" prefix. Later, when the speaker uses a pronoun to
> refer to this noun, he attaches the same tag to the pronoun.
Interesting. It's very similar to a feature in Llirine, the main
difference being that Llirine uses adjectives instead of prefixes.
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