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Posted by Mark Rosenfelder (192.35.251.2) on August 31, 2000 at 14:52:21:

I'm creating the framework for the Atlas... literally; it's going to use frames and Javascript. Hopefully I'll get a few maps done before I leave on vacation next week.

I'm reading yet another book on historical linguistics, and I'm wishing I had more reanalysis in Almean languages-- it's truly neat. A syntactic example: there's a construction in Chinese that works like this:

Cheng bâ Zhang dâle
Cheng obj Zhang hit-perf
Cheng hit Zhang

bâ is an object preposition (like Japanese wa. But it derives from a verb meaning 'take hold of'. So, the original form of such sentences meant something like "Cheng took hold of Zhang [and] hit [him]"; the current meaning is just "Cheng hit Zhang". Neat, huh?

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: I'm creating the framework for the Atlas... literally; it's going to use frames and Javascript. Hopefully I'll get a few maps done before I leave on vacation next week. : I'm reading yet another book on historical linguistics, and I'm wishing I had more reanalysis in Almean languages-- it's truly neat. A syntactic example: there's a construction in Chinese that works like this: : Cheng bâ Zhang dâle : Cheng obj Zhang hit-perf : Cheng hit Zhang : bâ is an object preposition (like Japanese wa. But it derives from a verb meaning 'take hold of'. So, the original form of such sentences meant something like "Cheng took hold of Zhang [and] hit [him]"; the current meaning is just "Cheng hit Zhang". Neat, huh?

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