Re: GROUPLANG: cases (was: noun and verb roots)

Nik Taylor wrote:

>Pablo Flores wrote:
>> If you remember well, we don't distinguish verbs from nouns.
>> By predicate-case-marking a root, you transform it into a "verb".
>> The possible confusions here are avoided if you gloss a word
>> with all of its possible meanings according the case.
>
>This whole thing is becoming too logical for me, too much like NGL or
>loglan.  I thought that we were aiming for a naturalistic lang?
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.

Anyway, you're right about it: it's too logical. But we can't go
and get our hands dirty until we've set for some basic features,
like the case system and the screeve elements.

I personally think the case system makes things too much logical
if you have to think carefully which case to attach to a certain
word, which is the case :( for me so far.


--Pablo Flores

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