Re: Karnnugaan isn't working

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:51:10AM +0100, Geoff Horswood wrote:
[...]
> It's the grammar that makes it so tough to make headway with.
>
> I'm trying to do away with regular semantic classes.  Karnuugaan
> doesn't have nouns, verbs, adjectives etc.  It has Roots and
> Modifiers.
Have you ever read one analysis of the Austronesian languages that
essentially claim that they are exactly what you describe? Roots +
affixes (either prefixes or suffixes or both), or some other
morphological process, create verbs and nouns out of primordial units of
meaning. Certain sets of affixes/morphological processes yield verbs,
and others, nouns, and perhaps other categories as well. You could use
that as a model, since Austronesian langs seem to do quite well with
this system (assuming, of course, that the this analysis is valid).

Maybe another list member can pull up the link to the article; I seem to
have lost it in my sea of bookmarks.


T

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