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 sounds very similar to Taalen, at least in verbal properties. I
have a minimal case system (nom, gen/stative verb, and oblique/adv), so
word order is more constrained. I like the idea of ordinals, but the idea
manifests in Taalen only in the fact of a 4th obviative person (a lower
numbered ordinal in your system). Your system also seems more trigger-like,
in that the verb shows the role of the nouns. Sounds good to me!

   Aidan