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To: Ladekwa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:46
PM
Subject: [Ladekwa] Case tags
Hi Rick,
Pardon this radical suggestion, but it seems to me that the case tags are
an underutilised feature in Ladekwa (soon to be Latejami?). For example, why
classify verbs according to their case structures if you still need to use
other case tags elsewhere? Why not use case tags for agent, patient and focus
as well, so that you can use whatever cases you want for the nouns, in
whatever order you want, and then merely distinguish between the static and
dynamic verbs? Not only would this greatly simplify the verb classification
system, but it also would obviate the need for most of the voice system as
well, because of the greater flexibility of the word order. Indeed, the only
non-redundant distinction that the voice system would have left to make
is between suppressing a case ( e.g. middle voice) and merely hiding it (e.g.
passive voice), and even then, I'm not really sure that that distinction is
meaningful.
If you're gonna overhaul Ladekwa anyway, I thought I'd
better throw that in there, especially since it frees up a few more
classifiers...
Geoff