Re: Designing a language database - issues?

> ...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 Thu Jun 30 2005 - 05:12:59 CEST