Re: Weird language idea

Staving Andreas Johansson:
>Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
>
> > 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?
>
>Like Christian, I've got a hard time to figure how this would work.
>
>F'rinstance, say that we want to translate an English intransitive sentence.
>Presumably, we'd use a "state" describing the verbal action, and modify it by
>further one's that specify subject and object. Unfortunately, only one word
>can modify the first state, so there goes that idea. It seems to me that a
>word must be able to take multiple arguments.
>
>Or could one treat predicates as modifiers to their subjects?
>
That's more or less the idea. There might be a state meaning "cause", and
it would be modified by whatever its subject was the cause of.

Pete