> Omitting your detailed comments on trains, and how to distinguish hooks > from forks, let me interject that valence is an entirely orthogonal > matter. Any verb train may be put into either monadic or dyadic > contexts, and figuring out what sort of verb train you have in hand does > nothing to resolve valence.
x (v4 v3 v2 v1) y (a hook) will be executed as x v4 ((v3 y) v2 (v1 y)) ======================= not as x v4 ((x v3 3) v2 (x v1 y)) or anything else, while x (v5 v4 v3 v2 v1) y (a fork) will be executed as (x v5 y) v4 (x v3 y) v2 (x v1 y) ================================ so the two concepts are not orthogonal. The addition of v5 changes the valence of many verbs in the train. Best regards Bruno Daniel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
