Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

> I'd like to compose :
> 'Leg-chair John's cut-down heavy I'
> Please. ;-) (HEAVY means real heavy. I'd like to try that but I fear the language
> would quickly disappear)
> Mathias
More seriously :
My last posts were maybe not clear when referring to 'left- and right-branching'
so I make it clearer below :
Even if you make the flexions heavy enough to get rid of 'SVO/VSO/OVS' (which I
regard a very conservative viewpoint) and 'head/tail' orders, you need answer 3
questions :
1. Are there 'verbs' (verbal predicates) ?
2. What is the word order in compound words ?
3. Where do you stick the tags of flexion on the words ? Prefixes/prepositions,
postfixes/postpositions, infixes ?
Reading the word 'case' in Steg and Pablo's posts I guess they mean postfixes
(left-branching bias). Am I wrong ? I'd prefer pre-stuff because then argument
is easily extensible to the right but - oh well. Never mind. I can feel I won't
eclipse the Latin-Greek-Sanskrit prestige in a day. So I'd comply with the
majority provided it clearly expresses its preference :-)
By the way, are 'cases' of this language deriving from nouns or verbs, or are
they completely unrelated thereto ?
Thanks for your replies to these basic issues.
Mathias

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