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Re: Syntaxy-Turvy (long, crazy)

From:Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 28, 2000, 14:00
Wow! I understand what you mean by 'crazy'!

A language which completely inverts the roles of the noun and the verb! I
think nobody ever thought about that before (there are All-Nouns,
All-Verbs, All-whatever-you-want, but a language where the core of the
sentence is a noun which takes verbs as "subject" and "object", that's
really new). I really like it, but I think it's highly unnatural. But don't
care about it, I don't care about naturality either :)) .

Just a few questions:

How do you handle adjectives? Are you gonna make them verbs, nouns, or a
completely different category? Are you gonna make adverbs, and derive
adjectives from them? (it would keep the symmetry between "usual" languages
and Taxy :) )

How do you handle three participants' sentences, like "I give the dog a bone"?

And prepositional phrases? :))

I long to see more about Taxy. I wonder how you're gonna do to keep the
symmetry between Taxy and other languages...

                                                Christophe Grandsire
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