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