Re: me and my languages

Hi!

"Thomas R. Wier" <artabanos@...> writes:
> >     Anyway, I think I'm realizing my question here.  Is it feasible that
> > there could be a language with no preferred word order whatsoever since all
> > the information is encoded in the verb?
>
> It is certainly possible, although it would probably be unique among
> human languages.
I wanted to do exactly that in my third conlang, of which only vague
plans exist now.

In contrast to Tyl Sjok, I will try to have the most feature
overloaded language one can possibly think of.  Totally regular but
with a hell lot of complex rules and a lot of concord, too.  Referring
to the discussion, it will have totally free word order even with
embedded clauses by marking each word in e.g. a relative clause with
an additional marker.  This means that e.g. case endings may be added
twice or actually arbitrarily often, depending on how deep the clause
is embedded.  E.g. in a sentence like

  The man whom I see is tall.

the words would be marked as follows (well, actually, it is not
decided yet which cases will exist).  The order is totally free:

  Man.DEF.ACC I.NOM.ACC see.1SG.HAS_NOM.ACC tall.3SG.HAS_NOM.HAS_ACC
or
  Man.DEF.ACC see.1SG.HAS_NOM.ACC tall.3SG.HAS_NOM.HAS_ACC I.NOM.ACC
or
  I.NOM.ACC Man.DEF.ACC tall.3SG.HAS_NOM.HAS_ACC see.1SG.HAS_NOM.ACC
or
  ...

(Maybe there will be even more markers...)

As you can see, it will be head and dependent marking for virtually
all aspects of the language, so the relation between words is
unambiguous and you know what is still missing.

Unfortunately, inventing a highly complex language takes a highly
remarkable amount of time.  That's why I started with my fourth
language before starting the third one.  Probably I'll have influence
from Arda-langs for the third one.

**Henrik