Re: Yet another introduction

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001 20:03:34 +0400, Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> wrote:

>> Can you tell us a little about previous projects, too?
>
>Oh, the closest I got to anything like a real language was a project
>with a Semitic-type morphology and ergative case marking. It had a
>pretty strange phonology (I mean it just didn't fit in anywhere, and it
>was not quite justified from typological/phonological universals point
>of view) and a bunch of other strange features.
>Anothe one was supposed to be polysynthetic, but I stopped just short of
>thinking anything about the verbal categories. Anyway, both the language
>and the culture were just going to look like exactly Chukchee, and I did
>not have the dedication then :-)
Languages must be weird, right ? ;)


Basilius