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Re: A question of semantics

From:michael poxon <m.poxon@...>
Date:Friday, August 15, 2003, 14:01
Yes! Of course it's arbitrary, but each example (English and French) is
language-specific. Finding the specific "fields" for your own Conlang is
part of what makes it fun. Hopefully, your collection of conlang-specific
fields, whether semantic, phomemic, phonetic, syntactical and so on, will
give it its individual personality.
Mike
> The point is that there are many types of uncertainty, and English > allows only some types to be associated with some language constructions. > Your example of French shows that this is very arbitrary, and will vary > between what are two very similar languages. > > > Regards, > Nick Maclaren, > University of Cambridge Computing Service, > New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England. > Email: nmm1@cam.ac.uk > Tel.: +44 1223 334761 Fax: +44 1223 334679
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