Re: A question of semantics
| From: | michael poxon <m.poxon@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, August 15, 2003, 14:01 |
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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.
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>
> 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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