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Re: [txeqli] Number of places



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.
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