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Re: [katanda] can/try/want

Title: Re: [katanda] can/try/want
In a message dated 2002-09-22 2:50:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, sts@hidden.email writes:
this is interesting! argument structure manipulation and part of speech manipulation is interesting... but "-sn-" and it's kin are overly interesting. here we manipulate semantical paradigms... this is close to thinking, i presume. what do you think?

stephan,
i think i don't understand what you're getting at.  "overly interesting"?  what semantical paradigms? 
steven

ram implemented the gramatical paradigm of actor, patient and focus, and you can derive from one verb any other verb that belongs to this gramatical paradigm, via the ccms. maybe i shouldn't say "paradigm" but "system".
anyway, comgining ccms let you "browse" in this system in order to select whatever is linked to this system. now i said "gramatical system" and not "semantical". in any other language, i think, the difference between "to talk" and "to speak" is semantical, but in katanda it is gramatical (syntactical?), do you know what i mean?
a language becomes more potent if you shift the semantics into the grammar. when everything has been gramaticalised (i.e. can be transformed freely from one part of speech to another, from one argument structure to another and so on), than you can "calculate" with everything what you say, and that means that a computer that can deal that language is in order to think, or at least answer to any question you ask it.

hm...

stefo,
sts.