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Re: A Self-segregating morphology (was: Guinea pigs invited)

From:Henrik Theiling <theiling@...>
Date:Monday, December 19, 2005, 16:59
Hi!

Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> writes:
>... > Yes, that's it. Except for the inflections. My > intention was to create an isolating language where > the parts of speech and basic meaning of the word were > changed by switching the vowels, but there would be no > inflections for tense, person, case, etc. These would > be handled, where absolutely necessary, by particles.
Yeah, sounds nice. I once thought about using tone to do it, but never really made a conlang of that kind (this is often the case, I guess). **Henrik