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Your example: a linking grammatical particle
precedes the verb. Then that verb is part of a clause.
Every word is part of a clause, I think. I hope
to understand correctly: the verb is part of the
particle/conjunction/case_tag clause.
...
I think you are referring to the point that case
tags work more like in our languages, having the subject before them,
whereas verbs have their subject put behind (in Ladekwa, but not "our"
languages). I have mentioned this earlier, and I would like to have the case tag
structure for verbs as well (subject, verb/case_tag/conjunction,
object).
I do not understand the parsing process exactly.
Maybe Rick can tell you?
Thank you for enumerating the four core
roles.
Regards,
Stephan
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Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:36
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Subject: Re: [Ladekwa] Case tags
But why? If a linking grammatical particle such as a case tag or
conjunction precedes the verb, then you will know that the verb is part of a
clause. If no such linking word precedes the verb, such as a noun or adjective
or nothing at all, then you will know that the verb is part of a new sentence.
Because the language is right-branching, parsing will be no more complicated
using nothing but case tags than it was before, it'll just be different.
Regards,
Geoff
On 13/11/05, Stephan
Schneider <sts@hidden.email>
wrote:
The advantage has been that reading the verb
you already know how many verb arguments are about to come. This means that
not only the words are self-segregating, but also the sentences are. The
parsing process would be much more complicated if this syntactic preview
would not be there.
Regards,
Stephan
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To: Ladekwa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:46
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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
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