Re: Invitation to The Head-Last Project

Rob Haden:
> I'm inviting you all to The Head-Last Project.  I am interested in
> gathering people from many different backgrounds to contribute.  Here is
> the Yahoo! Group description:
>
> The purpose of this group is to develop an interesting language that
> consistently applies head-last (or left-branching) grammar and syntax.
Why?

That is, why is head-last syntax interesting, and why develop a language
rather than just a syntax?

What about tweaking an existing language, such as English or Lojban,
to make it head-last?

(My own conlang is exceptionlessly head-first, because that is the
easiest route to simplicity and unambiguity, but making it consistently
head-first presented little challenge, and the language was never
conceived of as an implementation of head-first syntax.)

--And.