Re: A Language built around a novel grammar

Hi!

Eric Christopherson writes:
>...
> I think there have been a lot of conlangs which make little or no
> distinction between noun (and adjective) and verb, although I can't
> remember any others offhand except for Sasxsek, which has been
> mentioned.  I am working on one myself.  Sadly, it doesn't seem as
> original as it once did :)
>...
Well, after once trying, it seems all of my artlangs boil do this.  I
*tried* to use a verb/noun distinction in S11, but it felt like such
an arbitrary distinction when I tried to formulate the border between
the classes.  I eventually changed grammar to account for my
preferences. :-)

So from my pool of conlangs, you can add to your list:

    Fukhian
    Tyl Sjok
    Qþyn|gài
    S11       (to be renamed)
    Nibuzigu

Fukhian is a little different.  At the time of creation, the Internet
either did not exist or not to me, so I had not looked at other
conlangs to learn from.  And being my first conlang, I had no abstract
goal as with the other conlangs.  The original conlang grammar lists
three word classes: verbs, nouns, and adjectives.  However, it seems
that I already felt that noun/verb distinction is basically a matter
of usage, so a later reanalysis revealed that there are no traces of
formal distinction of noun and verb stems in the lexicon or grammar.
However, the language's adjectives are definitely a distinct word
class.

**Henrik