Re: Verb order in Montreiano

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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