Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, November 28, 1999, 20:23 |
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nicole perrin wrote:
> This makes me curious, do people on the list (who work on more than one
> conlang) find that most of their conlangs are similar to each other? I
> don't mean in obvious ways, but maybe you really like /p/ and all of you
> languages have it (or you really dislike it and none of them have it),
> or maybe they all have similar word orders, or are all
> isolating/agglutinating/analytic/polysynthetic etc?
Every conlang I've ever made has cases, always at least
nominative/ergative, accusative/absolutive, genetive, and dative, and
frequently an instrumental as well. Also, most are agglutinating, and
I've never liked isolating, I've attempted it, but I didn't like it.
Most have an inclusive/exclusive distinction in first person, and
usually some form of gender.
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