Re: 'per': was: Artyom Kouzminykh: Answers & proposal

alypius wrote:

> Has anyone experimented
> with a severely pruned collection of prepositions, or with a limited  case
> system with no preps?
No prepositions in mine, but any verb can act like one. Instead of
"He is upset *about* something", replace "about" with "concerning"
and call it whatever you like, gerund or serial verb or xxx.
Still need at least two "core cases", experts say three.
The main verb can "license" those, as in Subject-Verb-Object,
and determine which is which by means of its "voice", or just
by word order. (I cheat with genitive too, using juxtaposition.)

> Is this really workable?
Maybe. Or perhaps it is only a pidgin, a second-class pre-language.
The way of testing it is to find a deserted island and raise
monolingual-in-it children, come back 2 generations later
and see what they've done to make it really work.
What I really want is software to simulate that, but how?