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--- In Ladekwa@yahoogroups.com, Geoff Hacker <geoff.hacker@g...> wrote: > > By "clause", I meant a sentence within a sentence, as opposed to a whole new > sentence. > I like the fact that Ladekwa puts the verb first, as part of being a > right-branching language. There would be no need to give this up just > because core roles used case tags as much as derived roles did. I am > thinking that core case tags could be just the bare case tag but derived > case tags would be derived verb + core case tag. > I think that this would be a better design. It would result in just two > different verb suffixes instead of twelve, two different voice suffixes > instead of five, and it would only require four different case tag suffixes > instead of however many different ones there currently are. One might use > more case tag suffixes for the sake of brevity, but they would not be > functionally necessary. Hi Geoff, Currently I'm thinking about core roles myself and I'm not sure what's the best thing to do. At the moment I'm dealing with 6 grammatical and 2 logical roles (plus their possible combinations) ... It's merely about knowledge representation. Anyway, I think I need a break from Ladekwa grammar, sorry. Regards, Stephan