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Re: Verb order in Montreiano

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Sunday, April 1, 2001, 16:19
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> I was reading the archives that Padraic has on Brithenig and all, and i > came across one talking about the VSO order in some Romance languages. > Well, since i actually like that order (and Tagalog does this), i thought > i'd incorporate that into Montreiano. > > You ate at my house - Comist eu a mi casa. > > Anyway, i think i'll go with this. I hadnt really settled on a main word > order at all, until now.
I must learn Spanish when I go out to California. :-) I get as far as mi =? my and casa =? house. (Conlangs as educational impetus toward learning real-life langs so you can understand where the conlangs are coming from! Too bad I'm not going into foreign-language education or I could use conlang stuff. I'm at a loss as to how one to incorporate conlangs into math classes.) But seeing this made me want to ask: In what order do people like to settle on grammatical features (whether or not said features are later revised)? I confess I've gone roughly from _Describing Morphosyntax_ and Rosenfeld's Language Construction Kit: deciding on agglutinating/isolating/whatever, basic word order, deciding whether adjectives are verblike or nounlike or both or neither, etc. (Which is why I double-took when I saw your message, because word order is something I decide on really early.) But my eyes have been opened to the possibility of other ways of doing things. :-) Enlighten me? YHL

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