| From: | R A Brown <ray@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 6, 2006, 8:16 |
Henrik Theiling wrote: [snip]> Are there langs that express grammatical categories in modes? > E.g. Major=indicative, Minor=subjunctive, Dorian=question? And maybe > Phrygian=imperative? That'd be quite cool. :-)Not that I know of.> But if the utterance is too short to make the mode clear, you might > end up with some ambiguities. Hehe.True. I'm not sure how feasible it would be to use different modes in this way. ==================================== Hanuman Zhang wrote: > on 7/5/06 5:28 PM, Dirk Elzinga at dirk.elzinga@GMAIL.COM wrote: > > >>Hi, all. >> >>This may or may not be appropriate in this thread, but I thought I'd >>bring it to the list's attention. >> >>http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=1185 >> >>Dirk > > > All I get is a page stating "Abstract Missing." Also true - so do I. But if you click on the ROA symbol beneath, you'll have a menu appear. Click on "List All Recent Postings". I assume Dirk means the one entitled: "Prosodic Processes in Language and Music". It's a PDF document. I've downloaded it. Whether or not it's appropriate to the thread, I don't know; I haven't read it yet (it's got 204 pages :) -- Ray ================================== ray@carolandray.plus.com http://www.carolandray.plus.com ================================== "Ein Kopf, der auf seine eigene Kosten denkt, wird immer Eingriffe in die Sprache thun." J.G. Hamann, 1760
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