Re: Matein Einlich (Modern English)

On 10 Feb 2005, at 10.06 am, Pascal A. Kramm wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:28:09 +1100, Tristan McLeay
> <conlang@...> wrote:
>
>> On 9 Feb 2005, at 2.23 pm, Matt Arriola wrote:
>>
>>> That's pretty cool, but why did everything switch around all of a
>>> sudden? (postpositions, suffixed article, etc)
>>
>> Postpositions could come about, perhaps, by reanalysing things like
>> 'to
>> take (something) off' and generalising from that. I would suppose such
>> a process would either be slow and incomplete or very quick and
>> sudden.
>
> Yes, from that and from phrases like "Where are you going to?", which
> are
> then generalized.
I thought of that, but the 'to' seems attached to the verb rather than
being postposed from the noun ('where'): there's the entire rest of the
phrase in between. Still a postposition, but a verbal one rather than a
nominal one...

>> Nevertheless, it seems more like Matein Einlich is a conlang based on
>> English, rather than a conlang evolving English (if you get my
>> distinction)
>
> There's no difference for me there - that's just splitting hairs.
Yes indeed, and no more significant than the distinction between
artlangs and auxlangs. But still, your language: your ball, your court,
your rules :)

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Tristan.