Re: movement

On 3/27/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> writes:
> > In one of my early conlangs I had adpositions which were prepositional
> > when expressing location and postpositional when expressing movement
> > (or the other way around; I don't recall).  I don't think it would work
> > well in practice; ...
>
> Which reminds me: in Dutch, it works just like that:
>
>   Ik loop de  stad in.
>   I  walk the city in
>   'I walk into the city.'
>
> vs.
>   Ik loop in de  stad.
>   I  walk in the city
>   'I walk in(side) the city.'
Interesting.  That makes me want to pull out Thauliralau
and work on it some more.  (It was phonologically terribly
naive, and grammatically only moderately sophisticated,
but had some nifty semantic curiosities.  Maybe I'll develop
the protolanguage some more and work out one of the
sister languages spoken in another region.  It will be
nice to have a nonhumanoid alien language to use
in the next relay...)

--
Jim Henry
http://www.pobox.com/~jimhenry/conlang.htm