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on 4/24/02 7:16 PM, And Rosta at a-rosta@hidden.email wrote: > I'm saying two things. Firstly, that 3-way division is spurious; > it does not reflect any underlying reality of the language. > Secondly, the form--function restrictions have adverse effects, > in that common predicates can't receive really short forms, > while very obscure structure words do receive very short forms. > > What I think is better is something like the way, say, that > English question words begin with wh-. Not all words beginning > wh- are question words, but it helps maintain a certain overall > orderliness that a form-function pattern unites the question > words. So maybe a more piecemeal approach. Like all the-ish words are tV(V) in shape. Like the lV(V) words in Loglan. And would you let numbers migrate around? Like. Go ten du hon. I have two books. Go ten du to hon. I have two of the books. To du hon sur stol. The two books are on the table. In short, can a number then function as both a quantifier and an argument? -- >PLEASE NOTE MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS: rmay@hidden.email > Rex F. May (Baloo) > Daily cartoon at: http://www.cnsnews.com/cartoon/baloo.asp > Buy my book at: http://www.kiva.net/~jonabook/gdummy.htm > Language site at: http://www.geocities.com/ceqli/Uploadexp.htm >Discuss my auxiliary language at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/txeqli/