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<p class="MsoNormal">Mike,</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for your observations. It appears that conjugation and declension functions would be better to consider per language group or per individual language.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best regards,</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Adam</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:mbennett@hypercube.co.uk">Mike Bennett</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, July 22, 2020 12:43 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org">abstract-wikipedia@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Abstract-wikipedia] Conjugation and Declension Functions (Adam Sobieski)</p>
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<p>Or more precisely, they differ in their nature and applicability in different language groups. See for example Bantu languages, which do conjugation and declension but against a list of typically a dozen noun classes, rather than 2 or 3 genders.
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<p>Meanwhile Semitic languages don't have the notion of an adjective and use instead different phrase stuctures.
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<p>So I think if you are going to try and identify language primitives at this kind of level, you are right into Chomsky territory, trying to find a universal set of abstractions from which to specialise for different language groups.
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<p>Here you will find the bones of philosophers who have gone before. </p>
<p>Mike</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 7/22/2020 12:29 PM, Charles Matthews via Abstract-Wikipedia wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 22 July 2020 at 17:08 Grounder UK <a href="mailto:grounderuk@gmail.com">
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I'm loving all these emails but I find it hard to keep track of the different topics. Someone find me a Wiki!
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, your question, Adam: " <span style="font-size:12.0pt">What do you think about conjugation and declension functions?"</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">In general, I'm against them. (Well, I'm English. What would you expect?)
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<p>In general, surely, they reflect Indo-European languages? Doubtless they are on topic, but three of the top ten Wikipedias, by visits, are not from that language group.</p>
<p>Charles</p>
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