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Re: a grammar sketch...

From:Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...>
Date:Thursday, October 5, 2000, 6:34
In a message dated 2000:10:04 10:33:39 PM, daniel.andreasson@TELIA.COM writes:

>David wrote: > > > I wonder what will be our next darling. > > > >Christophe replied: > >> I think I've spanned the whole range of possibilities. What can >> you think of next? :)
Daniel wrote:
>I've got two words for ya: pivotless languages! Langs with no >sentence alignment or grammatical relations whatsoever. There >is just no way of telling if in the sentence 'Dog bites man' >it is the man or the dog that is bitten.
I write: Sounds like either Lisu or a "Language Poetry" experiment ;) czHANg << One thing foreigners, computers, & poets have in common is that they make unexpected linguistic associations. >> * Jasia Reichardt - creative cyberneticist *