Re: Conlang Shadows

takatunu wrote:

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This tag shows that the noun works in the specific way you expect it
to work when asociated with a specific predicate. It's a way to make
the language kind of "all-noun."
[...]
with : @operating+tag
out of : @tap+tag
for : @duration+tag
in : @place+tag
although : @concede+tag
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That's fascinating (I speak as one who has been wrestling with the
allnoun concept for some years now).  I see now (thanks also to John
C.) that the tag has a much broader range of meanings or meaning-
modulations than a typical instrumental case affix.

When you say '...when associated with a specific predicate', do you
mean to imply that the relationship of the tagged noun to its
surrounding phrase is flexible and context-dependent, like the
relationship between the concepts in an English compound (like snow-,
post-, chair- + -man)?

And if your language is 'kind of all-noun', might it not be possible
to use this tag to make it completely all-noun (apart from the tag
itself of course)?  I'm particularly interested in the example
'@operating+tag' - presumably 'operating' corresponds to a verb here,
but if so, the word-class distinction here is surely redundant and
'operator+tag' would be syntactically as well as semantically
equivalent.

As a matter of interest, does @WORD here mean 'translation of WORD'?

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How dare you write that my uberfantastic lang design is not even worth
your criticism? :-)
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More that my criticism isn't worthy of your language ... :P

Jonathan.

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