Re: A Conlang, created by the group?

Mathias M. Lassailly wrote:

> > I prefer a free word order, made possible by the cases.
>
> Then please realize you need a HEAVY case system, sometime even 'doubled' (on
> adjectives for example). Are you ready for it ? Yeah ? Ok !
Well, though, a case system makes the word order freer for eachcase, or rather
affix, it adds. For example, the use of adverbs in
English is more or less entirely free, because almost all adjectives
can be made into adverbs simply by using the mostly optional
affix -ly.  That makes that aspect of English's syntax "free".  So,
what you call "freedom" is not so much a fixed point as rather more
like a continuum of freedom -- the more affixes, the more syntactic
freedom. But with more syntactic freedom also comes more morphological
constriction of freedom, so it's really, more or less, a zero-sum gain.

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