----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan McLeay" <zsau@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: Invitation to The Head-Last Project
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Andreas Johansson wrote:
>
> > Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:
> > > I take it you've thrown up your hands in horror at the merry chaos
which
> > > has broken out at ACollaborativeConlang and decided to try to create
> > > something saner? I noticed a comment along the lines of "We don't want
> > > anything mad like nominative/accusative in the present tense and
> > > ergative/absolute in the past", which is precisely what
> > > ACollaborativeConlang has (I believe that the linguistic term for this
is
> > > "split-S"). Good luck, but feel free to come and play with the
anarchists
> > > at any time.
> >
> > I once made a sketch of a conlang which was, IIRC nom-acc in the past,
abs-erg
> > in the present and Monster Raving Loony in the future, along with some
bizarre
> > mappings between different case and tense endings; ergative, accusative
and
> > intransitive, past and future where all unmarked, while nominative,
absolutive,
> > transitive and present all took the same affix. Hm, that doesn't look
quite
> > right - it was supposed to be completely unambigous too (syntax telling
verbs
> > from nouns).
>
> Pidse has aspects of this in it, too. Except with moods and aspects,
> rather than tenses. More complicated stuff too. Probably bizarre and I'm
> sure there's _something_ that breaks the principle of anadewism. Written
> down in a book. Which I'll look at now that the holidays are almost here
> :)
>
> > PS The purpose of the exercise was simple; to violate ALF.
>
> What was ALF again?
Anadewism.