Re: GROUPLANG: cases (was: noun and verb roots)
| From: | Herman Miller <hmiller@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, October 18, 1998, 1:56 |
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:12:04 -0300, Pablo Flores
<fflores@...> wrote:
>We are. I've seen this thing getting too logical too, but I think
>it's necessary. When I make a conlang, I start by drawing a structure
>that is completely symmetrical and quite logical. *Then* when I've
>gained some perspective and I'm more at loose, I begin twisting
>little things here and here, adding irregularities, using features
>for functions they didn't originally had, etc.
Hmm... That brings up an interesting question. How do other conlangers
build their languages? I've always done it by starting with short phrases
and building up from there. I figure out how a language says "bats fly" =
or
"the cat saw the mouse" or "the moon is made of green cheese" before
working up to more complex sentences. If I don't have quite the right =
noun
case or verb aspect for what I want to express, I'll add, rearrange, or
expand others to fit.