Hey, I'd love to see anything you can come up with.
A modern reconstruction of PIE would be a pretty weird language. Apparen=
tly
it was an "active" language at an early stage. This is a category I had =
not
heard of, a third option besides "accusative" and "ergative".
"Active" languages don't really have transitive sentences. They have
"animate" and "inanimate" nouns, and "active" and "stative" verbs, and th=
e
noun has to match the verb. I haven't read much about this, it's all new=
to
me; sounds a bit like trigger languages. If anyone has resources on this=
phenomenon I'd love to hear about it.
Ed
Mathew Willoughby <sidonian@...> wrote:
> I've toyed with he idea of an IE language. My knowledge
> of IE reconstruction is pretty sparse though. I've had a
> terrible time trying to find resources. Anyway, I think
> that an extrapolation of alternative IE languages
> would be pretty cool. Go for it! I'd love to hear about
> what you come up with!
> =
> I'm especially interested in a conlang that is a rendering
> of PIE, or a close relative thereof! I'll try to dig out
> some old resources that I found and forward them to you
> (but I'm sure the Lehman book is much better)
> =
> =
> Edward Heil wrote:
> =
> > Has anyone out there tried to construct a new Indo-European language,=
the
way
> > that Brithenig has been constructed as a new Romance language?
> >
> > I'm reading a great book, _Theoretical Bases of Indo-European
Linguistics_, by
> > Winifred P. Lehman. (only $25 in paperback!) It has a wonderful ske=
tch
of
> > the structure of the Proto-Indo-European language, and in the back of=
my
mind
> > is the idea of using it in a conlang -- either filling in the gaps to=
make
a
> > usable conlang out of what we know of PIE, or making up some sound-ch=
ange
> > rules and so on to try to make my own IE lang.
> >
> > Ed
> >
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