Re: Weird language idea

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From: "Peter Bleackley" <Peter.Bleackley@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Weird language idea


> All the talk last week about the difficulty of creating a truly alien
> language re-inspired an idea that's been floating round my head for a
> little while, for a language with only one part of speech and one
> syntactical rule.
>
> The one part of speech is the "state". This can function as a noun, a
> stative verb, or even a function word depending on context. The one
> syntactical rule is that each state modifies the one preceding it. Any
> thoughts?
I just had this very same idea, spawning from the same discussion.  I think,
anyway.

My idea functioned something like this:

3ss - 3rd person singular subject taken
3so - 3rd person singular object taken
PRS - Present


kamimaso lumiso emimaso somiso
man-3ss-3so-PRS walk-3ss-PRS  on-3ss-3so-PRS street-3ss-PRS
he is the man.  he is walking.  he is on it.  it is the street.
The man walks on the street.


> Pete
>