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on 5/2/02 1:14 PM, Rob Speer at rob@hidden.email wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 06:59:08AM -0600, Rex May - Baloo wrote: >> What exactly was our rationale for limiting the number of places to three >> for predicates again? I do think many log/loj preds have too many places, >> but in some cases four places seem natural, like for sel a fourth place for >> price. > > That's odd - I considered that extraneous, and wanted to use a separate > predicate for "price". > > But I suppose "to sell" does inherently include the price, especially > since in English we can include the price with just the preposition > "for". > > Going to four places would require more pinvor that refer to places. > Perhaps we'd use be/ce/de instead of be/ge. The f-series could easily > include "fo". > -- I like be ce de, and the f-series also. And later we may want to add case tags also. -- >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/