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Re: to be different

From:Alex Fink <a4pq1injbok_0@...>
Date:Friday, January 19, 2007, 0:08
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 18:13:01 -0500, Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
wrote:

>I'm having trouble coming up with the morphosyntax for translating "to be >different from" in NYSEC. My problem is that this doesn't seem to fit any >existing argument structure category. It has two arguments: what's different >and what it's different from. It's not transitive and neither argument is a >possessor. The way English does it won't work either. Any ideas?
How do you treat express identity, 'be (the same as)' ("the Morning Star _is_ the Evening Star")? Semantically 'be different from' is basically the negative of this, so the same argument structure could work. Alex