Typological inference

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In a message dated 9/11/99 3:32:42 AM, alderson at netcom.com wrote:

<< Typology makes reference to concepts such as
"noun", "verb", "adjective", "subject", "object", and so on, which cannot be
applied to an undeciphered text.  >>

That's exactly it.  I'm on the road and don't have my stuff with me, but the
example was deciphering old Asian text by identifying the sentence elements,
etc.  The first thing was connectives between names Ithink than comparatives,
than S-V-O structure, by process of elimination, etc.

Regards,
Steve Long