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Hello Kapitano, Stevo and Rick (and who else is listening), (See the answer of Rick as well.)
> I was patiently waiting for an answer to the question how to say with > nasendi-grammatical tricks"In the bathroom i imagine the chair in the kitchen in the living room." (I am in the bathroom. The chair is in the kitchen. In my imagination the chair is in the living room.)The source language text might contain sentences nested to this depth, and so might the equivalent text in the destination language. But is it necessary to code such nestings in the bridge language?
Maybe it isn't, but it would be really interesting. Learning Katanda I learned a lot about grammar and representation of human thought in general. I would like to know how that thought mentioned above would be represented. I didn't want to say that this is neccesary, only interesting.
Let's say we have language S (the source) who's syntax is *not* capable of disambiguating such nestings. We also have language D (the destination) which *can* handle some such nestings.
(I don't know any language (german, english, french, russian, spanish, esperanto, italian, latin) that cannot handle that. But in Latin there is the accusative with infinitive, which is a trick that differs from the other languages I know.)
We represent the content of the S text in bridge language B, then recode B into D. The S text does not contain nestings, but (if our software is clever enough) the D text might. Given this, do we have any need for nestings in the B text?
Maybe not. I would need to know a language that lacks these nestings.
If the answer is yes, then the B language would be a monster of complexity, because it would have to be capable of retaining every kind of nesting found in every human language, in it's own internal syntax.
What other nestings do exist in human language? I imagine that there aren't any others, or not so many that would make the bridge language a monster.
Sorry for've responded so late, I hope you haven't lost interest in the meantime.
Bye, Stefo, sts.