Re: Would this be too hard to work with?

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>I see no problem why it shouldn't work, though I don't think this
>kind of morphology exists in any natlang; it feels very artificial
>to me.  But is at any rate a good idea for a loglang or engelang
>where artificiality doesn't matter.
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>Greetings,
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>Jörg.
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THe regularity on every kind of word is a bit artificial, but his system
doesn't seem that different to various extremely agreement-y languages
that allow really free word order, like for example many australian
langs with case stacking where most rearrangements are allowed. Unless
I've got the wrong end of the stick... was his example meant to
demonstrate that NPs and prepositions etc can be broken up, or was he
trying to say that every clause consists of: nouns first, followed by
modifiers for all nouns, followed by predicate in fixed order? If that's
the case then I agree it's artificial.

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