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Re: Telona grammar, part 1

From:Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...>
Date:Thursday, February 7, 2002, 0:05
Bob Greenwade wrote:
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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.... ;-] <<< Does that mean that Klymaksii and Telona are the first isolating languages in the world to show inflection? :)) Jonathan. 'O dear white children casual as birds, Playing among the ruined languages...' W. H. Auden, 'Hymn to St. Cecilia'

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