Re: A Conlang, created by the group?
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 9, 1998, 2:37 |
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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:27:01 -0000 "Mathias M. Lassailly"
<lassailly@...> writes:
>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 :-)
I was thinking of any kind of case affix....actually, i'd prefer
prefixes, but i've never worked with case-*endings* before, so i'd also
prefer those as a learning experience.
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