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Re: favorite aspects of conlanging

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 27, 2001, 15:44
Hi!

Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...> writes:
> But this got me to wondering--do the rest of you have "favorite" aspects of > language design,
... Yes, definitely. I love to do grammar, especially syntax. But I don't like to make up the morphology very much. I like to think about how things are expressed, i.e., what aspects, tenses, cases etc. exist, but I don't like inventing the real forms (affixes or words), i.e., I like to come up with feature lists but without real language examples. That's why languages I invent start with no words or affixes at all. After that, I usually like to play with phonology, but usually without any link to the grammar. One problem is that I always like to pronounce my language, which limits the number of phonemes that may exist. :-( The other aspects of conlanging are usually the glue to keep the language together. In this sense, my current language Tyl Sjok resembles this: it's isolating. And lexicon is so hard a task! **Henrik