Re: Linguistic knowledge and conlanging (was Explaining linguistic...)

Gary Shannon said:
>
> Here's the process I'm using for my present
> experiment.  I choose a piece of text and just write
> the translation.  Since this is the first piece of
> text nothing is known about the language yet, so the
> translation can look like anything; just a string of
> made-up words.
> [snip]
> I am also free to refer to the existing corpus
> for examples of sentence structure,

How do you know what the sentence structures are?


-- Mark

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