Summary of "Syntactic Relationships" Expansion
Saul Epstein 
Sat, 29 Aug 1998 13:44:27 -0500

My "Some Thoughts on Word Classes" and subsequent comments are meant
to be read in light of ZC Chapter 2. "Some Thoughts" is speculative
in that it proposes to introduce/formalize some things that were
absent or unclear before.

This, with any subsequent comments, is meant to summarize and clarify
the full system of "Syntactic Relationships of Entity-Words" as laid
out in ZC Chapter 5 (and elsewhere) with the one addition that I
think has been accepted. (Or, at least, hasn't been rejected yet...)
It also stands as "Let's Talk: Grammar (Part 1)," sequel to "Let's
Talk: Phonetics," in which I offer a "modernized" set of names for
these relationships.

These relationships are, in fact, classes of relationship. The
English prepositions (or other features where available) in
parentheses are meant to suggest each class and represent the
"default" meaning of each suffix. But, for instance, a locative
entity may be that which another entity is above, below, before,
behind, around, etc. -- not merely that which another entity is IN.
Separate words, much like prepositions, will be available to make
such precise distinctions.

Possessive   -at   entity as possessor       (of)
Destinal     -ha   entity as destination     (to)
Acceptive    -hi   entity as "direct object" (NA)
Locative     -he   entity as location        (in)
Instrumental -ti   entity as instrument      (by means of)
Appellative  -a/e  entity as audience        (,)
Original     -cha' entity as origin          (from)
Associative  -sko  entity as companion       (together with)

<spokAT t'hyla uri'>
"That one (is) a friend OF Spock."

<uw'imroi shikahrHA spok(at) t'hyla>
"Spock's friend walks TO Shikahr."

<uw't'khiro r'mnasek'HI spok t'hyla>
"Spock's friend reads a book."

<uw'imroi shikahrHE spok t'hyla>
"Spock's friend walks (about) IN Shikahr."

<uw'prala junitrenz'TI spok t'hyla>
"Spock's friend speaks WITH a Universal Translator."

<qanhe s't'hyla spokA>
"Where (is) your friend, Spock?"

<uw'imroi shikahrCHA' th't'hyla>
"My friend walks FROM Shikahr."

<uw'imroi uwSKO sarek>
"Sarek walks WITH him."

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