Re: Summary of "Syntactic Relationships" Expansion
Saul Epstein 
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:54:13 -0500

From: Rob Zook <rzook*informix,com>
Date: Tuesday, September 1, 1998 11:03 AM
 
> Saul Epstein wrote:
> 
> > <spokAT t'hyla uri'>
> > "That one (is) a friend OF Spock."
> 
> Ummm..,that one's pretty metaphorical Saul, I don't think it
translates
> very well.

Do you mean "that one" is pretty metaphorical, or that the whole
sentence is? If the first, I'm taking my cue from the stated use of
number words as quantifying suffixes, as in

t'hylara - 2 friends           t'hyle (more than 5 friends)
          (analogicaly trial,
           quatral, quintal)

I don't mean it as a literal translation of "that one;" actually I
originally was constructing a sentance just to mean, "He is Spock's
friend." "That one" is therefore an overly literal translation of one
member of a potential set of gender-neutral pronouns -- a member
meaning s/he, of a set including a member meaning "gender-neutral I"
(or "this one.")
 
> Other than that, have you been able to locate any information on
> addition types of "syntactic relationships", other than the
standard
> English/Latin ones?
> You said that Sanscrit had some, perhaps you could post some
examples
> of one's which Sanscrit has, but Latin does not?

Oh, yeah, I was going to look into that, wasn't I? Actually the set I
posted in this summary matches Sanskrit fairly closely, with the
addition of -sko. (Of course, my suggested "new" names don't
match...) And I appear to have been mistaken in my impression that
Latin and Sanskrit shared most of the same ones, as Latin seems to be
missing a few, according to the Latin-English dictionary which has
been my sole source of information on the subject to date.

Time for some research...

--
from Saul Epstein
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"Surakri' ow'phahcur the's'hi the's'cha'; the's'phahrka
     the's'hi surakecha'."
                                        -- K'dvarin Urswhl'at