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

From:Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...>
Date:Friday, October 16, 1998, 19:54
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? -- "It's bad manners to talk about ropes in the house of a man whose father was hanged." - Irish proverb http://members.tripod.com/~Nik_Taylor/Conlang/W.html ICQ: 18656696 AOL: NikTailor