From lojbab@lojban.org Sat Oct 07 11:57:23 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_0_3); 7 Oct 2000 18:57:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 28361 invoked from network); 7 Oct 2000 18:57:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m1.onelist.org with QMQP; 7 Oct 2000 18:57:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO stmpy-2.cais.net) (205.252.14.72) by mta1 with SMTP; 7 Oct 2000 18:57:23 -0000 Received: from bob (222.dynamic.cais.com [207.226.56.222]) by stmpy-2.cais.net (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e97IvMf91218 for ; Sat, 7 Oct 2000 14:57:22 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from lojbab@lojban.org) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20001007145059.00bb1ce0@127.0.0.1> X-Sender: vir1036/pop.cais.com@127.0.0.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:53:04 -0400 To: lojban@egroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Why place structure? In-Reply-To: <46.b8411aa.270f3aa6@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" 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 -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, President, The Logical Language Group, Inc. 2904 Beau Lane, Fairfax VA 22031-1303 USA 703-385-0273 Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org