semanticallyloaded nucleiwords & VSO Lego!

    With my conlang Lego, I am trying to create a polyglot "occidental"
version of Archaic Chinese's "semantically multi-valued nuclei" * (pronouns
and [the ever intriguing] particles are mono-semantic tho' are a definite
exceptions; up to a point, adverbs, prep.s, conjunctions are also
mono-semantic). [* "semantically multi-valued nuclei" = semantically-loaded
nuclear words ;)]

    Any suggestions on how to consistently create this kind of word -
semantically multi-valued nuclei - from various roots from various languages
- would BE much appreciated.

    I am pondering the idea of Lego being a TMA * creole-like VSO conlang
with "bifurcating, chaotic" branching of modifiers (lite mods before
headwords, heavy mods backin'up headwords ;) ...  hehe!, a poetic conlang
with musical and mathematical metaphors (also the use of
_om_/omega/ohm-symbol has Buddhist "power" besides "techno-powers" ;) ....
 [* TMA - Tense-Mood-Aspect marking]

    ruff idea:

WRITTEN LEGO:

    sene allegro-alea anime § poli-primate ina poli-arbo + continu-dura
xelio-cata Ω

SPOKEN LEGO:

    /sEnE  "allE.gro."alE"a  "ani.meI.  {td!z*}.  poli.mini.pri.m"a.teI.
in.a  poli."ar.bo   pluz: konti.dur"a xE.lio. c"a.t"a  om/

DESCRIPTIVE INTERLINEAR:

    PAST1 brisk-tempo-random moVe GP PL-monkey PREP PL-tree CN CONT sun-down
SFP
                        ________________________________
    PAST1 -> 1st past tense (immediate past) _sene_ from "cene" as in
HolocenicPeriod

    "moVe" -> VERB

    GP -------> GRAMMATICAL PARTICLE

    PL --------> PLURAL PREFIX

    CN ---------> CONNECTIVE (as well as conjunction)

    CONT------> CONTINUATIVE

    SFP --------> Sentence Final Particle.

    czHANg, ::grins at Nicole, then does a Bogart::  More monkeys for ya,
sweetheart...

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