On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 05:25, Tom Gysel <to_mu1975@yahoo.com> wrote: > Thanks Brett, > > Do you (or anyone else) know if there is a way of classifying gismu, as in: > these types of gismu have this kind of place structure, and this sort has > this structure... ? To memorize them with much more ease? You know it's funny. I was thinking about asking the same question on this list, but I was going to do up some graphics first. Oh well, I'll just do vecnu. The idea is that the spatial relationships correspond to the way we conceptualize the relationships between the places. I didn't label the ovals with the keywords, but ideally that would be done. x1 is seller, x2 is item, x3 is buyer, x4 is price. The left-to-right direction signifies the verb-object relationship. In this case, since x3 has a verb-object with x1, we have a bi-directional dotted arrow. Things above the middle signify context, and things below signify things that are acted upon. I imagine that, only including arrows and x_n labels, that many gismu would share the same diagram in this format. Chris Capel -- "What is it like to be a bat? What is it like to bat a bee? What is it like to be a bee being batted? What is it like to be a batted bee?" -- The Mind's I (Hofstadter, Dennet)
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