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There are 2 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Trigger/Focus - Once again
From: Carsten Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2. Re: Why grammar is so complex a subject
From: Jim Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:20:59 +0100
From: Carsten Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trigger/Focus - Once again
Only some minor corrections here:
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, 11:25 AM CET, I wrote:
>3) Sira maninarà nangabanyáng caromayain mgsh. elepanea
> Carried the hospital the doctor to the elephant
> TRG:P A TRG LOC
[...]
> 3) Manisiranarà ang nangabanya in caromaya ea mangasaha elepan.
Just for the record, that must be _nangabanyareng_ and _eng
nangabanya_, since hospitals are like most other buildings
inanimate.
Roger Mills notified me offlist that the patient marker in
Tagalog is _-in-_, not _*-na-_ as I assumed.
Carsten
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Keywords: trigger, focus
"Miranayam cepauarà naranoaris."
(Calvin nay Hobbes)
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 10:34:00 -0500
From: Jim Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why grammar is so complex a subject
On 12/28/05, Gary Shannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Jim Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A while ago there was a collaborative conlang
> > project
> > which consisted of various conlangers contributing
> > sentences to a corpus, and making speculative
> I tried to start something like that here back around
> aug of 2004. It withered and died due ot lack of
> interest. It's still archived at http://fiziwig.com/
> filed under "Madjal - A failed experiment in conlang
> anarchy" in the conlang section.
That was it. I did not recall that it was you who
started it.
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Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm
...Mind the gmail Reply-to: field
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