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Re: Telona grammar, part 1

From:Bob Greenwade <bob.greenwade@...>
Date:Tuesday, February 5, 2002, 23:13
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. --- Bob's Original Hero Stuff Page! [Circle of HEROS member] http://www.angelfire.com/super2/bobgreenwade/original.htm Music from Bob's Computer! (CD now available!) http://mp3.com/BobsComputer Want more hits to your web page? http://nomorehits.com/cgi-bin/start.cgi?referrer=bobgreenwade http://ads.clickthru.net/bannerlink?host=264157&ban=4