Re: Ellipsis (was: Re: Italian Particles)

In a message dated 2000/04/24 02:21:05 PM, you wrote:

>I think SOV (OSV, VSO, VOS) languages may prohibit certain
>types of elliptic structures (e. g. requiring a pronominal filler in
>some cases).
>
>I see a lot of possibilities here (which mostly seem incompatible
>within one lang): 'Don't omit the subject', 'Don't drop the object',
>'Don't leave out what would stand closest to the verb in the
>non-emphatic construction', etc.
>
>Have anybody played with this in their conlangs?
    That is precisely what I am trying to do in my ConLang project
_Synthrax_. .. see how far ellipsis & disjunctive juxtapositioning
can go & still communicate at some level or two (in Synthrax,
I hope to create both an "expandable Pidgin" & a poetic language
in one).
    My major models are - of course - classical T'ang Dynasty Chinese
poetic syntax for the poetic "sub-syntax" & various English-based
Pidgin languages for the general syntax. Meshing these two seems to
be relatively easy ... so far.

    zHANg