Re: Telona grammar, part 1
| From: | Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 7, 2002, 17:30 |
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At 10:18 PM 2/6/02 +0000, Jonathan Knibb wrote:
>Bob Greenwade wrote:
> >>>
>At 10:31 PM 2/2/02 +0000, Jonathan Knibb wrote:
> >So, to start with, the Telona word. Most importantly, there are no
> >distinctions between parts of speech - no nouns, no verbs, no nothing.
>Interestingly, one of the languages I'm working on, Klymaksii, has this
>as one of its two distinguishing features. The other, though, contrasts
>sharply with Telona: Klymaksii uses a very strict word order for the
>determination of meaning.
>[...]
>Well, Klymaksii inflects for a word's role in a sentence.... ;-]
><<<
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>Does that mean that Klymaksii and Telona are the first isolating languages
>in the world to show inflection? :))
If so, then all the rest can be considered "antibiotic languages" since
they fight inflection.... ;-]
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