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Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives

To: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>
Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives
From: John Cowan <cowan@ccil.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 16:10:55 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: lojban@egroups.com
In-reply-to: <398B2FBB.4C10F0C2@math.bas.bg>

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Ivan A Derzhanski wrote:

> Still, there is a line:
> `beautiful girl' is _szép lány_, not *_lány szép_ -- 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")?

-- 
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"

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- Re: [lojban] Re: Beyond Whorf: "things," "qualities," and the origin of nouns and adjectives
  - From: Ivan A Derzhanski <iad@MATH.BAS.BG>

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