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.'
**Henrik
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