De: Tim Smith <timsmith@...>
Fecha: Lunes 5 de Octubre de 1998 20:32
>I do have a tendency to recycle both lexical and grammatical morphemes, but
>I think that in my case it's basically caused by laziness. As I've said
>before, inventing a lexicon is the hardest part of conlanging for me. In
>two of my conlangs, Meitzanathein and Naya Vandi, I tried to justify this
by
>saying that they were related. But that turned out to be perhaps a
solution
>worse than the problem, because it meant that, to be really plausible, I
had
>to come up with a protolanguage and with reasonable ways for each of them
to
>evolve from it (both sound changes and grammatical changes), a much harder
>task than just developing two entirely separate lexicons! (In fact, I've
>never gotten very far with this task.)
>-------------------------------------------------
>Tim Smith
>timsmith@global2000.net
Another way would be saying Meitzanathein and Naya Vandi are not related by
having a common ancestor but that they have been in close contact so at lot
of borrowings had happend...
If gramatics are very different but vocabularies not, this could be a
conhistory of your languages.
-- Carlos Th