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On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Mike S. <maikxlx@gmail.com> wrote: > > xfr: Ax transfers Px > kl: Pk passes to Tk > > so prna xfrai so mlti kliu ro vrbu. > Some person (Ax) gave a cat (Px=Pk) to every child (Tk). Do you really mean: ExPx: EzMz: AyVy: Xaz & Kzy ? There's some person and some cat such that the person gives it to every child? Your English sounds more like: ExPx: AyVy: EzMz: Xaz & Kzy or perhaps: AyVy: ExPx: EzMz: Xaz & Kzy In my version it would be sorted by the order of the quantifiers: sa prna re vrbe si mlti je xfraki klike ExPx: AyVy: EzMz: Xaz & Kzy re vrbe sa prna si mlti je xfraki klike AyVy: ExPx: EzMz: Xaz & Kzy sa prna si mlti re vrbe je xfraki klike ExPx: EzMz: AyVy: Xaz & Kzy I'm not sure how you want to handle quantifier scope. > I think the best way to link the place structures of syntactically > combined predicates is by simply adopting Richard Morneau's system of three > archetypical thematic relations called agent (A), patient (P), and theme (T) > (the last Morneau calls "focus"). These can represented by vowels a/i/u. > Clauses can be composed of serial predicates as in the example above, or you > can derive case tags like Morneau if you prefer; there is only one agent- > and/or one patient-arguments per clause, But what if the same argument is the agent in one clause and the patient or theme in another within the same quantifier's scope? > each of which is governed by any > number of co-predicates of the correct types; there are any number of > theme-arguments, each governed by exactly one co-predicate. In my tinkering > I have found that there are only four open-class predicate types needed: > (A,P) "A does something to P", (A,T) "A does something using T", (P) "P is > something", and (P,T) "P has something to do with T". There is also a need > for a closed class of coordinating particles with arbitrary valency (P, T1, > T2, T3,... ) but I'll leave that out for now. The (AP) predicates are derived from the (P)? As in "x1 moves" when x1 is agent as well as patient. mu'o mi'e xorxes