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[Michael McCafferty]

Absolutely! No doubt about it.

Been there, done that.




Quoting Joost Kremers <joostkremers at fastmail.fm>:

> 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
> Life has its moments
>
>



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