Re: Another new project and trigger languages

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 06:15:29PM -0800, Garth Wallace wrote:

> For one of my languages, I'm using a generalization of this. Nouns are
> marked with affixes that roughly correspond to their "rank" of
> importance in the sentence (one of them is most important, although
> beyond that they're pretty much interchangeable), which I'm calling
> "ordinals". The verb is marked with the ordinals of its arguments,
> inflected to show role (agent, patient, recipient, etc.). Since
> adjectives are stative verbs, the possessive form of a noun actually
> derives a stative verb, and adverbs are replaced with a "manner"
> case-role, word order is incredibly free. Is this a workable system?
This is beautiful!  I'm jealous.  I'm always casting about for original
ways to represent things, and I think you've found that here.

Amanda

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