Flower the tom kitten confirms animal sentence construction

(written in 2014, retrospective in 2016: I no longer believe in the 'continuity hypothesis' due to rejecting the theory of evolution as it relates to human beings, but everything else I wrote about animals and the construction of sentences still rings true to me today. By the way, they know not to even bother speaking thus to most human beings, who rarely even communicate with each other. How I love animals, and how I wish I loved humans half as much.)

Flower, the tom kitten who visits on his rounds, went directly to the shower stall, a place where he does not habitually go, and began meowing. It happened that there was no water dish for visitors, since I had knocked it over and never gone about replacing it. So I did, and he drank about a cup of water. He had A) remembered that the shower, though dry, is associated with water and B) recognised that another animal ("Trent") would understand the combination of meowing and that association. One infers that the absence of water in the shower stall was adjudged to be structurally and syntactically similar to the absence of water in the spot where he ordinarily finds it. This is the same tom kitten who hissed at me once when he was meowing and agitated, which was when I actually noticed the scratch on his nose, remembered the cat fight I had heard earlier, and put two and two together. It was the most efficient way he could arrive at explaining his being upset on account of a fight in particular. It is clear that he prefers to use binary compounds to get his points across. In glossing terms, the two sentences would be "UPSET ABSENCE-OF-WATER" (meows + pantomime) and "UPSET FIGHT-EARLIER" (meows + unprecedented hiss).  Implicit in his choice of binary compounds is a recognition that single words or signs communicate less than clusters. The sentence as we know it arises from this recognition, and with it human spatial and temporal syntax.