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[Joost Kremers]

Hi list,

On Tue, Mar 18 2014, Michael McCafferty <mmccaffe at indiana.edu> wrote:
> I understand what you're talking about in terms of the "alien" 
> structure of Nahuatl, in terms of its being a language composed of 
> "nuclear clauses," as Andrews calls them, which is not what 
> Indo-European languages are about.

It might be interesting to note, however, that it is a common assumption
among semanticists that a noun such as "man" or "dog" or "house", etc.
is semantically a predicate, even if it's used as an argument. In other
words, the semantic representation of a clause such as "I see the dog"
is something along the lines of "I see x and x is a dog". 

>From that perspective, Nahuatl and Indoeuropean languages are more alike
than appearances suggest...

-- 
Joost Kremers
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