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hello,the verb-argument-structure in katanda is very fixed, but in many languages the word order is much more free. i miss something similar in katanda. the verb-argument-structure is determined by the ccms and the ma-pa-zo-tools, so, by the verb that they are attached to. in other languages the core arguments have cases: nominative, accusative, dative, genitive.
i think that the deictics of a noun are like the core arguments of a verb. well, this is my way to see it, until now.
temba mi tumi kotoy. - i give you the book.
the verb has the information about the argument structure. as to write:
te(agent, patient, focus){mi, tumi, kotoy}.
i meant to see it this way:
te{agent=mi, patient=tumi, focus=kotoy}.
at that point, we could easily say
te{focus=kotoy, agent=mi, patient=tumi}
without thinking so much about that this is ... what is it, by the
way? "the book i gave you" (as for the book, i gave it to you), so
anti-anti-inverse? ?!
but we would need tags for agent, patient, agentive patient and focus.
te{mi-A tumi-P kotoy-F}.
knowing that the sentence ends with a full stop, we can collect all
the arguments and translate it to
te(A/P/F){mi tumi kotoy} -> te(mba){mi tumi kotoy} -> temba mi tumi kotoy.
this may not be necessary for the katanda translator, but there could
be a katanda that could be translated to the "machine" katanda. what
do you think about this?
kastebyo, sts.