Theiling Online    Sitemap    Conlang Mailing List HQ   

Re: USAGE: Verbs and verb compounds

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Wednesday, June 23, 1999, 17:09
From Http://Members.Aol.Com/Lassailly/Tunuframe.Html wrote:

> did you ever gather on a webpage > the list of all the lingo urls you mention in your posts ?
My old http://www.catty.com/~catty/bookmarks.htm page has about 70% linguistic-related stuff, and has almost all URLs posted.
> neat. where are your pro-tools to tie plain verbs to their respective actors ?
I have only 2 mechanisms to do anything; the 10 syntactic endings, and about 40 general semantic classifier roots like "doer" and "tool" and modifiers like "not". All roots have the same CVC(VC) form so they compound easily. I don't expect words to grow too long, because, heretically, I feel that vague imprecise words *do* adequately represent whatever the speaker means. When/if ambiguity becomes excessive, more modifiers/classifiers are naturally used to "precise" meaning. Some people outlaw ambiguity, but I prefer to infer many things at once.
> do you know somewhere i could get a conlanging full-time job (preferably one > to design pseudo-linguistic theories) ?
Ask Chomsky.