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- From: iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Ivan A Derzhanski)
- Newsgroups: sci.lang
- Subject: Re: Works on WHO,WHEN,WHAT,WHERE...
- Message-ID: <12281@sorley.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 13:38:44 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.212840.21214@ils.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Centre for Cognitive Science, Edinburgh, UK
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- In article <1993Jan5.212840.21214@ils.nwu.edu> pautler@ils.nwu.edu (David Pautler) writes:
- >BTW, your choice of 'slots' seems pretty arbitrary to me -- maintaining
- >a distinction between WHO's and WHAT's at this level seems unimportant
- >compared to the loss of information due to collapsing all actors, recipients,
- >patients, etc. to WHO's and all causes, intentions, etc. to WHY's.
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- I think in the classical interpretation of this sequence of WHs the
- WHO is just the subject (the agent) and the WHAT is the predicate
- (including the patient, recipient and what have you).
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- Yes, the WHY covers all causes, reasons, motives and the like, and one
- wonders why there is no WHENCE and no WHITHER.
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- `D'ye mind tellin me whit the two o ye are gaun oan aboot?' (The Glasgow
- Ivan A Derzhanski (iad@cogsci.ed.ac.uk; iad@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) Gospel)
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