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Re: Designing a language database - issues?

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 29 Jun 2005 20:12:59 -0700
Message-ID: <1120101179.252691.302800@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 





> ...Literally, they say, "Shovel-with, I dug a hole", whereas in English,

> you would say "With a shovel, I dug a hole".




The above can be stored using "(CREATE paul dug holeX with shovelY)" in
xrdb; however an application could present it differently (ie. with
shovelY, paul dug holeX).



> ... I was just wondering if any work had been done on this at

> all by any scholars/linguists - whatever?




Someone probably has but they are unlikely to be db experts and vise
versa :)
Received on Wed Jun 29 2005 - 22:12:59 CDT












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