Re: new conlang- BÎhuenagwon

>Finally, this statement you made...
><<Word order is Subject-Verb-Etc.>>
>...is clearly not true. The linear order you have is this: (1) clay; (2) sunbake;
>(3) shape; (4) and. There is no subject, but there is no place in this
>sentence that you can stick a subject that would cause it to occur directly
>before the verb. (Well, unless it was a suffix to the direct object, giving
>you OSV order.) It looks to me like the word order will be SOV
>(subject-object-verb),
 on thinking it over, I suspect that "clay" would be the subject...yes?

> unless you don't think of the object as an actual argument, but
a suffix, in which case you could make an argument for SV word order--if that's
where the subject goes. But there is no subject in this sentence. Can you give
us a sentence with a subject? But don't start off with something complex like
"to sunbake and shape clay". Start with something simple. How about:

>The man sees the dog.
 so far, the entire vocabulary pertains to geology; now I have to add biology, eh?  :)


>Anyway, man, you've got some really wild ideas.  How did you think this stuff up?
 "let's give it to Mikey, he'll eat anything."