Re: Grammatical tones

Christopher Wright scripsit:

> How plausible is it for tones to have a grammatical rather than lexical
> meaning? For instance, where many languages have articles, this one would
> have different tones instead. Or perhaps verb number or tense would be
> indicated thus.
I asked this very question on Linguist List ten years ago (wow!), thus:

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-341.html#1

And here's my summary of replies:

http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/3/3-374.html#2

Not mentioned there is that my made-up examples in the query use the
Gua\spi tonal grammar, though with English lexis.  Gua\spi is an offshoot
of Loglan: see http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/guaspi/

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