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on 4/29/02 6:18 PM, And Rosta at a-rosta@hidden.email wrote: > This is not the only alternative. A better alternative is to have > a clause-initial particle that tells you which arguments are present > and which order they occur in. This has all sorts of added side > benefits. For one thing, it automatically distinguishes between > 'nouns', 'verbs' and 'clauses': every clause begins with one of > these particles, and within the clause -- "man bite dog", say -- > you know that the 2nd element is the verb because the clause-initial > particle tells you so. Could you illustrate with an example? -- >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/