Re: And now... a new conlang!

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.
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 :)


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