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Re: deeply embedded VSO nightmare

From:William Annis <annis@...>
Date:Monday, October 22, 2001, 19:11
 >between. I asked my prof and he either wasn't too sure or didn't want to get
 >into it, but he hinted that maybe there was a transformation going on... how
 >screwy though, to need a transformation for every sentence!

        Oh, goody!  Another reason for me to make fun of
transformational syntax!  *grin*

 >                                                             Maybe in these
 >languages it's the subject and verb that form a phrase together ... but that
 >doesn't seem too likely (could make a nice alien conlang though). So
 >anyway....
 >
 >Good luck with your ambiguity nightmare,

        Thank you.  The suggestions here have been interesting.  If
nothing else, my own thinking on the matter has been clarified a bit.

--
William Annis  -  System Administrator -  Biomedical Computing Group
"When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do
towards other humans."                       Marcus Aurelius  VII.65