Re: Telona grammar, part 1
| From: | Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, February 7, 2002, 0:05 |
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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.... ;-]
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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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