Subject: Re: [lojban] Why place structure?

From: "Bob LeChevalier (lojbab)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2000 14:53:04 -0400

At 10:24 AM 10/06/2000 -0400, [email-masked] 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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