On 10/10/05, Yahya Abdal-Aziz <yahya@...> wrote:

> > 3) So let's use the final vowel as a lexical class marker.
> Here I have a problem. Does this perhaps imply that the
> number of lexical classes must equal the number of vowels
> in the phoneme inventory? If so, are we sure that gives us
> enough lexical classes to construct almost any interesting
> utterance?

If you look back in the group archives, you'll see
we talked about a possible scheme with four semantic
categories (substance, action/process, relationship,
and quality) which correspond to four "parts of
speech", noun, verb, preposition, and adjective/adverb.
But I think Larry finally went with a simpler scheme
that folds relationships into the other categories.

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