Re: Rick Morneau's Katanda?
| From: | Jeffrey Henning <jeffrey@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 30, 2002, 4:17 |
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"Mike S." <mcslason@...> comuni:
> I have borrowed few ideas from Katanda myself for my logical
> language. The _Lexical Semantics_ is almost too good. I've
> had to think hard to come up with ideas to prevent my language
> from being a Katanda-clone. I can say that it's finally starting
> to pull away, but I still can't shake his view on case roles,
> as much as I've tried.
Amen, brother! :-) For anyone interested in engineered languages, it is
*almost* too good.
Do you realize _Lexical Semantics_ is nearly 95,000 words long? It's an
amazing magnum opus -- arguably the most impressive one-man achievement in
modern conlanging.
As I review it, I want to simplify it for my languages, which don't need the
semantic or morphological precision Rick Morneau needs to make his MT
programming straight-forward. Can someone point me to comparative grammars
that reveal the most commonly used tenses, aspects, evidentials, etc.? I'm
looking for X:gramemes to match UPSID:phonemes. (UPSID at
http://www.linguistics.rdg.ac.uk/staff/Ron.Brasington/UPSID.interface/Interf
ace.html )
Best regards,
Jeffrey
http://jeffrey.henning.com
http://www.langmaker.com
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