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Q about ambiguities



I've been playing around with different loglangs and after looking 
through ceqli, I am interested in how it resolves ambiguity. I am 
specifically talking about figuring out what is the predicate and 
what are the arguments.

One example is:

Pe xau kom pan sa kane.
Person sees the bread-eating dog.

How does one know not to separate it as:

[Pe] xau kom [pan sa kane]
Person see-eats the bread-type-of-dog.

or

[Pe xau] kom [pan sa kane]
Person-goer eats bread-type-of-dog.

In both cases, the verb is confused as part of a compound.

I'm also curious as to what you consider the advantage of putting 
adjectives and adverbs and suchlike _before_ whatever they are 
describing. I realize that run-on sentences are non-existent in 
chinese, due to the fact that descriptions can only run on for so 
long before you must reveal what you are describing. I can't 
decide whether or not this is a good thing, so I'll leave it for you 
all to help me with.

oskar