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Re: Another new project and trigger languages

From:Sally Caves <scaves@...>
Date:Monday, January 13, 2003, 19:02
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From: "Amanda Babcock" <langs@...>

> 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
I second that! This sounds terrific. Can you give a more detailed example, Garth? Sally Caves scaves@frontiernet.net Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo. "My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."

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