Re: And now for something completely different - Chatiga

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 23:06:44 +0000, Joe <joe@...> wrote:

> Pascal A. Kramm wrote:
>
>> This time, I took a completely different approach :D
>> Chatiga possesses neither verbs nor adjectives, as nouns are used in
>> their
>> place. Words are never inflected, making it a highly isolating language
>> which uses particles for grammatical functions like indication of time
>> and
>> modality, or to mark nouns for their function if neccessary.
>
> Looks similar to my new Language (unnamed).  Except mine isn't highly
> isolating, and has interesting ways of creating meanings for words.  And
> I simply don't distinguish between nouns and verbs. Adjectival
> constructions are formed by the construction 'word1+pa+word2', where
> word2 is a property of the first.
Thagojian distinguishes nominals from verbs. Nominal roots may surface as
nouns, verbs, and verbs may only surface as verbs. Either may be derived
into adjectives/adverbs, though there is no formal distinction between
these two classes. As well as the inflections to those words, there are a
few indeclinable particles. It is quite analytical, and very agglutinative.

My McGuffey language (an aforementioned project with three trills) is
likely to have a distinction between nouns, stative verbs and active verbs
(these last may incorporate an object). I think it will have some kind of
split ergativity, probably lexically rather than semantically defined,
working perpendicularly to notions of stative or active verbs. Beyond
incorporation, I suspect it will be quite isolating.




Paul