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Re: And now... a new conlang!

From:Christophe Grandsire <grandsir@...>
Date:Friday, August 13, 1999, 12:04
Barry Garcia wrote:
> > grandsir@natlab.research.philips.com writes: > > So what do you think of all this? Do you think I achieve my goal (at > >least for the writing)? I will share the development of the grammar as > >soon as I have enough ideas about it. The grammatical features won't be > >very original I think (verbs, nouns and all the like...) but I will try > >to keep my idea of "disturbance", using them in strange ways (like > >conjugating verbs like in European languages, but for aspect, not for > >tense). This will be surely a VOS or VSO language (or maybe both, one > >order marked and the other not, or one order for one tense and the other > >for another...), but that's all I know for the moment. Feel free to give > >me your comments and ideas! > > > >-- > > Christophe Grandsire > > My my mr Grandsire, you have quite a beast there :). Bitten by the conlang > bug again eh? Anyway your new conlang sounds interesting. If i saw it > written out without reading about it, i would probably say it quite > differently from how it's supposed to be read.
Exactly the kind of reaction I wanted to have (that's the reaction I had with Dutch also, but now it's finished).
> It would be interesting to have a VSO grammar. Tagalog, and my first > conlang are like that. Here's an idea from Tagalog (since i dont have it > in my conlang), use a particle to distinguish one word order from the > other. In Tagalog if you put the subject first and the predicate last, you > link the subject to the predicate with <ay> (/ai/). If it's predicate > first, the linker disappears: > > Ako ay Pilipino - I am Filipino (subject first) > Pilipino ako - I am Filipino (predicate first) > > anyway just an idea for ya :) >
That's a good idea! I was toying the idea of surrounding particles for subordination. I could use something like this to mark an "abnormal" word order (like "I who am Filipino" to take your own example).
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