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Re: Verb order in Montreiano

From:Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
Date:Monday, April 2, 2001, 20:59
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, jesse stephen bangs wrote:

> Yoon Ha Lee sikayal: > > > 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 > > The very first germs of a language are almost always a vague idea for me: > "I'd like to make an active lang," or "How about something with > German-like vowel ablaut?" But once I actually make the language, I
Huh. :-p I start culture-first and language-second, which may or may not be bass-ackwards.
> always start with phonology, then do inflectional morphology. The > morphology obviously depends a little bit on the syntax (is this nom/acc > or erg/abs or agt/pat?), but I start out with very little syntax. I > usually do verbs first, but that varies. Once I have the morphology I > work on nailing down the syntax, and then vocabulary comes last. But once > I get really involved w/ the vocabulary, etc, any of the previous things > can change if I feel like I need it; Praçí in particular has changed cases > and word orders and syntax many times.
Interesting. Do you give yourself a few "sample words" to start with (before doing core vocab) to work with morphology? I find it easier to "see" what's going on with even morphology *I've* invented when it's applied to an actual word, but that may be a peculiarity of my brain. :-) Vocab is probably my favourite part of conlanging. <embarrassed look> YHL

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