Re: THEORY: Betreft: Re: THEORY: Conlanging as reverse Sapir-Whorf?
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 25, 1999, 20:47 |
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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Rob Nierse wrote:
> It appeared weird to me: I made something for Gbwia that was not
> alien to my mother tongue.
I suppose you mean "that *was* alien to my mother tongue"
> I wonder if other people have that kind of experience too.
Oh yes. Impersonal constructions, collective plurals, inceptive
aspect, the common-gender third person pronoun and the resumptive
pronoun are all alien to Dutch, but usual in Valdyan.
Irina
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