Re: movement

Henrik Theiling wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...> writes:
>
>
>>...
>>
>>
>>>Are there any constructed languages that were designed to maximize or
>>>systematize the portion of grammatical meaning expressed through the
>>>variation of word order?  How do analytic natural languages differ in
>>>the way they permutate word order?  Are there languages, constructed
>>>or natural, in which it is used for purposes other than voice and mood?
>>>
>>>
>>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.'
>
>
My instinct here would not be to interpret that as a postposition but as
part of the verb, where 'inlopen' means 'to walk into'.  I guess the
easiest way to figure whether that is true is to see if you say 'Ik heb
de stad ingelopen', or 'Ik heb de stad in gelopen'.  Since I don't know
Dutch, I can't tell you.

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