Re: Telona grammar, part 1

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.
>There are a number of ways of looking at this; one could see all Telona
>words as nouns (this is, BTW, the only similarity between Telona and Tom
>Breton's AllNoun), but there are other interpretations (watch my
>glosses!).  I generally think of them as simply words, which interact with
>each other according to Telona's own rules, which of course don't involve
>part-of-speech issues.
    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.

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