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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