Re: Attempt to reduce all verbs to a few roots

I'm sorry I'm too busy to reply in depth, but I wonder if you've
seen John Clifford's talk from LCC1:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8429192236651465384&q=language
+creation+conference

Also his handout and supplement are here:

http://dedalvs.free.fr/misc/clifford-handout.pdf

http://dedalvs.free.fr/misc/clifford-lordsprayer.pdf

His talk was on semantic primes.  You might be interested in
his analysis/presentation of various types of languages of
languages that have tried to reduce the number of concepts to
a set of a few basic semantic primes.   (And, indeed, he would
probably also be interested in your project.  I forget if he's on
Conlang still, but if not, you should give him a holler.)

-David
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