Re: [lojban] Why place structure?

["Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <lojbab@lojban.org>]

At 10:24 AM 10/06/2000 -0400, pycyn@aol.com wrote:
> As for place structures
> being uncommon, they are very common, though rather restricted.  Almost every
> language I can think of has some place structure with some of its predicates,
> that is, situations where you can tell the function of a term in a sentence
> only by where it occurs in the sentence.

Furthermore, languages that uses prepositions or case declensions are also 
using place structures of a sort - just ones that have a hint.  The meaning 
of a preposition or case marking is often idiosyncratic to the 
verb/predicate in which it occurs (and sometimes it has multiple meanings).

lojbab
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