New Langage "Tyl-Seok": Similar ideas? (Was: Translation pattern of `to have'?)

Hi!

Tommie L Powell <tommiepowell@...> writes:

> I also am currently constructing a conlang that's isolating, has
> no copula, is very regular and has active case marking.  (It isn't
> All-Noun, but is All-Noun except for modifiers.)
Interesting.  We could compare some of our languages' properties.  My
new conlang is called Tyl-Seok (meaning `elegant language/tongue').

Tyl-Seok briefly is like this:
  - isolating, active case marking, no copula, totally regular
  - no numbers, no genders/classes, no marked cases
  - SVO (agent to the left, patient to the right)
  - agency based on (potential) control
  - word categories: nouns and particles
    if a noun has non-zero valence, they may be thought of as
    verbs (but needn't)
  - no concord
  - basically two grammar rules:
       a) how to attach an agent:  put it to the left
       b) how to attach a patient: put it to the right
    Of course, the usage has to be clarified in detail...
  - tenses, moods, aspects, etc. are not grammatical, but may be
    marked using additional `verbs'
  - principle is underspecification and context
  - embedding structure: composed phrase (e.g. relative clauses)
    are handled like nouns
  - uses no labial phonemes; neither labial consonants nor rounded
    vowels:
    vowels:     [i E a i= V=  u- V]
                (i e a y  w   u  o)
    diphthongs: [EV u-i Ei Vu-]
                (eo ui  ei ou)
    consonants: [t s n l k x N ? h]
                [? h] do not occur at ends of words
                [N]   does not occur at beginnings of words
    clusters:   [ts kx nt Nk]
    syllables:  CV+(C+(V(C)))
  - mostly monosyllabic, but occasionally bisyllabic stems
  - pitch accent (regular: lower pitch on first syllable of
    bisyllabic words).
  - no tones (I'm thinking about this one.  Maybe the
    pitch accent is removed in favor of tones, as I like
    them so much.  If so, there will be three absolute
    tones: 11 33 55 in IPA)

Tyl-Seok has no proto language and (almost) no imagined history: all
phenomena occuring in grammar or word composition are still
productive.  Tyl-Seok is a modern language (not yet) spoken on Earth
that is constructed *now* with no languages to borrow from.  It is
invented on the northern hemisphere (e.g. `sun' also means `south').
It is meant to be an artlang with the purpose of being fun to be
created and spoken.

I'll post details as soon as I'm sure about them.
Any comments/questions so far?

**Henrik

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