Re: favorite aspects of conlanging

En réponse à Tom Tadfor Little <tom@...>:

> But this got me to wondering--do the rest of you have "favorite" aspects
> of
> language design, areas where you seem to get all sorts of ideas
> without
> even trying, and "drudgery" aspects--things that you do to make the
> language presentable, but that you don't actually derive much pleasure
> from? And for those of you who've been at this for years--do those
> category
> boundaries shift with time?
>
I am very keen on grammar and syntax as well as phonology and morphology. it
usually doesn't take me more than a week to flesh out a full grammar (and I
include subclause structures and the like), and then two weeks to correct it. On
the other hand, what really turns me off is lexicon. That's why most of my
languages are simply grammars with a handful words for grammatical examples. On
the other hand, I love to make translations, but I don't do that often because
it obliges me to flesh out the lexicon, what I don't like. When it's time to
flesh out a lexicon, I'm already gone to new grammatical ideas and thus begin
another language. And no, those categories didn't shift in time. Maybe that's
because I have a scientific formation...

Christophe.

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