GROUPLANG: simple, original,natural case system (was: noun and verb roots)

Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

>Maybe we could make something completely new relying on the practical experience and emotion words
>carry and do like in Chinese and make no difference in vocabulary between noun and verb, and also
>between process and state thus.
>
>We would have only 4 tags :
>1. case *+* (*plus* case = positive)
>2. case *-* (*minus* case = negative)
>3. case *=* (*still* case = neutral)
>4. predicate *:*
>5. relative *<  ]*
That's not so different from the STM, only a bit more mixed.


>Anybody would feel these 'cases' differently a depending on the word tagged. No
>logics, only feeling.
>This would be an interesting experiment because no common cultural background
>would help us construe
>the meaning of the sentence and we could see the language evolve naturally.
>
>What do you think of that ?
I kinda like it, but I prefer the STM.


--Pablo Flores

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