Re: Syntaxy-Turvy (long, crazy)

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:05:34 -0600, Brad Coon <bcoon@...> wrote:

>Vasiliy Chernov wrote:
>> All-Verbs? Can you give any reference? I overlooked it somehow...
>
>While there are other examples, my own Nova is more or less
>all-verb.  The reason being that while I call some things nouns,
>verbs, statives, they are all seen as events of varying duration.
>If the event lasts long enough, it is a noun, an intermediate
>time, it is a stative, a brief time, a verb.  "House" is a noun,
>"cloud" is a stative, "cough" is a verb, but all are inflected for
>aspect.  For example, one need not say "a house is being built"
>rather, "house+inceptive aspect".
http://www.fortunecity.com/rivendell/everquest/624/nova.html - correct?

I'll check it, thanks!

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 16:23:24 -0500, Patrick Dunn <tb0pwd1@...>
wrote:
>
>I made an all-verb.  Hated it though; finally threw it away.
And I toyed with something similar a few years ago, too. And understood
that it is very difficult to come to anything consistent. This is why
I was interested in examples of elaborated all-verb conlangs!

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:02:18 +0200, Christophe Grandsire
<Christophe.Grandsire@...> wrote:

>Loglan/Lojban could be very well considered as an All-Verb language too
(if
>I understood correctly the philosophy of the language). And there's also
my
>Notya, even if I like to see it more like a Neither-Verb-Nor-Noun
language,
>with only one part-of-speech (really, only one, not even particles :) ).
No, these two are both fascinating but aren't what I meant. They allow
for completely different alternative interpretations!


Basilius