From cowan@ccil.org Mon Aug 07 12:25:26 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31511 invoked from network); 7 Aug 2000 19:25:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Aug 2000 19:25:25 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO locke.ccil.org) (192.190.237.102) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Aug 2000 19:25:25 -0000 Received: from localhost (cowan@localhost) by locke.ccil.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id QAA16660; Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:10:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:10:55 -0400 (EDT) To: Ivan A Derzhanski Cc: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives In-Reply-To: <398B2FBB.4C10F0C2@math.bas.bg> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-eGroups-From: John Cowan From: John Cowan X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3856 On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote: > Still, there is a line: > `beautiful girl' is _sz=E9p l=E1ny_, not *_l=E1ny sz=E9p_ -- the less > nouny item (beauty) must modify the more nouny one (girlhood). Hmm. Are there general adj. ordering relations in H. as in English ("great green dragon", *"green great dragon")? --=20 John Cowan cowan@ccil.org C'est la` pourtant que se livre le sens du dire, de ce que, s'y conjuguant le nyania qui bruit des sexes en compagnie, il supplee a ce qu'entre eux, de rapport nyait pas. -- Jacques Lacan, "L'Etourdit"