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Article #2239Re: Works on WHO,WHEN,WHAT,WHERE...
From: Ivan A Derzhanski
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:38
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 13:38
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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. 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). Yes, the WHY covers all causes, reasons, motives and the like, and one wonders why there is no WHENCE and no WHITHER. -- `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) * Centre for Cognitive Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK * Cowan House, Pollock Halls, 18 Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh EH16 5BD, UK
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!edcastle!edcogsci!iad 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 Lines: 18